The Land of the Living

Grandson Cadence Pushing the Button to Take Us 500 Feet Underground. Hoover Dam, July, 2011. Inoculated With Faith I’ll never be a spelunker. Or a scuba diver. I’d rather remain on the earth’s surface, in the presence of fresh air. I don’t panic when I’m underground, but a faint anxiety wriggles within me like a […]


The Land of the Living

Grandson Cadence Pushing the Button to Take Us 500 Feet Underground. Hoover Dam, July, 2011. Inoculated With Faith I’ll never be a spelunker. Or a scuba diver. I’d rather remain on the earth’s surface, in the presence of fresh air. I don’t panic when I’m underground, but a faint anxiety wriggles within me like a […]


Plain Buttered Noodles

 (Almost) Plain Buttered Noodles. June, 2011. The Importance of Speaking Up One Sunday morning in October of 1964, my dad woke my sister and me with big news: “The baby is on the way. I’m going to take you girls to Sunday school, then I’ll take your mom to the hospital. After church, you go […]


The Ultimate Grown-Up

Cadence the Skipper, October, 2010 Father Knows BestLast fall we invited my daughter Elaine, our son-in-law Rob, and grandson Cadence to a cruise on our boat. We met at our marina and headed out into the wide Pacific, keeping an easy pace, as Elaine was eight months pregnant with Sawyer at the time. After we’d cruised […]


The Ultimate Grown-Up

Cadence the Skipper, October, 2010 Father Knows BestLast fall we invited my daughter Elaine, our son-in-law Rob, and grandson Cadence to a cruise on our boat. We met at our marina and headed out into the wide Pacific, keeping an easy pace, as Elaine was eight months pregnant with Sawyer at the time. After we’d cruised […]