It’s on My Calendar

Cadence and Me, Pensive. February 8, 2014 A Heart of Stone Doesn’t Stretch Every January I buy a wall calendar–one with an inoffensively pretty photo for each month and a square for each day in the month. It’s a terribly old school practice, I know. I think those tidy rows of boxes, with appointments and dates […]


Weekend Reflection: When the Perfect Comes

Beth and Sawyer. January 30, 2011. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 (ESV) It’s [almost] the weekend. […]


It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To

Our 27th Annual Cinnamon-Roll Baking. Christmas, 2013. Yona, Guam. But Really, I Don’t Want To. Unless they’re happy tears. Tomorrow I’ll have ridden this planet around the sun 55 times. Somehow, the view never bores me. I wonder sometimes, how can that be, that everything seems fresh all the time? I treasure some traditions (like Christmas cinnamon-roll […]


Why I Won’t Judge Richard Sherman

Cadence Closing Off the Noise. Christmastime, 2012. “Who Was Talking About You?” The more I see of this big old world, the more grateful I become for anonymity. Famous folks have to navigate cameras and microphones, especially at the most important moments of their lives.  I don’t. Thankfully.  No reporter stood at the curb to ask […]


It’s Here!!!

  Okay, so I am breaking every rule of author-cool.  I’m just as thrilled as can be to announce that my Christmas story is now available.  Here’s a tiny excerpt: “Ruth?” Margot called out her mother-in-law’s name as she darted into the library, her panic rising. Clattering down the gleaming oak floors of the hallway, […]