Now Serving: Fruit Salad

August 3, 2012 By

Vaite Zests a Lemon While Cadence and a Nameless Dinosaur Observe. Independence Day, 2012. Careful Preparations My niece Vaite offered to make fruit salad when our pastor and his family came for brunch during her visit. I was relieved: my arthritic hands fatigue before much peeling and chopping is done, these days, and I could trust […]


Filed Under: Colossians 3, comfort, encouragement, God's omnipotence, guest, Pastor Robert Jacobsen, Tahiti, thanksgiving, trust

Olympic Gold

August 1, 2012 By

Mom and Me. Note the Cheez-It Box in the Background. August, 2008. A Medal in Grief “We did NOT watch the Beijing Opening Ceremonies from my parents’ living room!” I’m indignant at the suggestion, and I can’t figure out why. I’m sheepish, too. So I apologize to my husband for my poor manners and trace the […]


Filed Under: birthday, death, God's omnipotence, grace, grief, husband, Matthew 5, pain

Flyaway Heroine

July 30, 2012 By

Cadence and Elaine. Wife. Mom. Patriot. My daughter Elaine and our grandson Sawyer are flying home to Hawaii today. They’ve been visiting in California for a month now. The family arrived in a single piece: Elaine, her husband Rob, who’s a chief in the U.S. Navy, older son Cadence, and toddler Sawyer. Rob flew back […]


Filed Under: birth, child, comfort, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, mercy, Romans 15, sacrifice, travel

Living in Great Big Bites

July 27, 2012 By

Rear: Elaine, Me in My So-Happy-I’m-Goofy Face, Rich Front: Cadence, Sawyer, Vaite, Rob The Best Kind of Crazy“How, exactly do those French women stay so slim?” I ask my niece, Vaite, over dinner one evening. With her fork she nudges about four bites of homemade macaroni and cheese into a tiny heap on her plate. […]


Filed Under: blessings, boat ride, Ephesians 3, family, Fourth of July, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, gratitude, Tahiti, travel

Privileged

July 25, 2012 By

Story Time. Me, Sawyer, Cadence. An Abundance of GracesLast week brought crud, partings, and losses. The weekend began with news of the death of our brother-in-law’s sister. Our niece, Vaite, left us on Tuesday, winging away on a midnight flight from LAX to return to her home in Tahiti. Rich incubated a crummy summer cold to […]


Filed Under: blessings, clarity, death, family, father, God's omnipotence, grace, grandchildren, gratitude, Hebrews 4, joy, redemption
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