Family Resemblances, Part Two

Family and Friends Celebrate Rich’s 50th Birthday April, 2009 Not Done Yet! Yesterday I received a heartening message from my dear friend, whom I’ll call Grace.  She’s been facing some painful changes in her life and we’ve been talking on the phone now and then, as well as exchanging email messages. Helpful context: Grace subscribes to […]


Family Resemblances

My Tahitian Sister, Kay, Buying Produce Papeete Marketplace, January 2004 Image Bearers Ever have a “duh!” moment–one of those moments where you realized an insight that was so basic, so obvious, that you felt really stupid that you’d never made that mental connection before? Me too. Take for example my contemplation of my dear friend […]


Divine Appointments

Elizabeth and John God Keeps the Calendar I’ve written before about our dear friend Elizabeth and her son John. Recently she announced that they would be relocating to her country of birth. Thrilled to learn they’d be passing through Southern California on their voyage, Rich and I  invited them to stay with us. Elizabeth and John have […]


Sailing Away

March, 2010: Aboard our Boat Profound Grief, Profound Faith Saturday Rich and I attended a memorial service and committal at sea for our friend Clay. His wife and my husband have worked together for 24 years. Clay fought cancer for a year and a half before being called home on August 23. He was 50 […]


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, […]