Forecast: Showers and Sacrifices

Foreground: Judi, Elaine, and Rob Background: April and Janice Love Rains! It reigns, too, of course. But at a baby shower–especially a baby shower for my own daughter–love saturates the air. Saturday we gathered at the home of Elaine’s parents-of-her-best-friend-since-she-was-three to celebrate baby Sawyer’s arrival, expected later this fall. Our hostesses, Janice and her daughter-in-law, Nici, […]


Grief, Music, and Weeds

Clearing out Crud Yesterday would have been my mom’s 74th birthday. I miss her most on her birthday, when I’m honoring her memory instead of baking her a cake. The week had brought sadness even before her birthday: News that a dear friend had died. News that another dear friend’s brave battle against cancer appears […]


Short Accounts

Honeymooning, 2007 (check out our stylish shoes!) Waxy Buildup Saturday evening brought us discord. We’d had a busy week, we were tired, I had a little something on my heart that I decided I needed to air. Immediately. Despite our fatigue. That little something, though, was buried under layers of minor imperfections, slights, and examples […]


Guided Tour

…Bumpy Road I love this photo of my daughter, my grandson and me walking in our neighborhood. The street is gravel, rutted; from this vantage point you can’t determine what direction the street takes up ahead, when you reach the point where the trees appear to be growing right in the middle of the street. Left, […]


Love, Love, Love!!!

  Kate’s House Fellowship Saturation Weekend We were blessed to spend the past weekend bathing in love. Friday night, Rich and I had a dinner date. Upon our return home, we watched the video from our 2007 wedding, which we had just received that day. What a joy it was to relive those special memories. […]