No Cheap Christmas Gifts!

Cadence, Filled with Joy. Christmas Day, 2009. We’re all Bazillionaires I was startled, some weeks ago, to find this subject line on a message board for Christian writers: “CHEAP CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!!” Surely the person who posted this meant cheap in the sense of  “purchasable below the going price or the real value,” but the phrase […]


No Cheap Christmas Gifts!

Cadence, Filled with Joy. Christmas Day, 2009. We’re all Bazillionaires I was startled, some weeks ago, to find this subject line on a message board for Christian writers: “CHEAP CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!!” Surely the person who posted this meant cheap in the sense of  “purchasable below the going price or the real value,” but the phrase […]


The Dream Barista

Teacup, Coffee Beans, French Press.   I Dreamed I was in a Cold Place This city was big and foreign. I walked its strange streets, looking for an address, the wind scathing my skin and my spirits. My legs grew heavy. I’d been wandering the dark streets so long the cold had moved into my […]


The Grief-Tested Car

Elaine and me, Quietly Happy Together. Tahiti. January, 2004. Reunions, Funerals, and Oil Lines My daughter Elaine, grandsons Cadence and Sawyer, her husband’s sister Crissy, and Crissy’s baby Annabelle land at LAX in ten hours and twenty-five minutes.  Not that I’m counting or anything.  The U.S. Navy sent my daughter and her family to Hawaii […]


The Grief-Tested Car

Elaine and me, Quietly Happy Together. Tahiti. January, 2004. Reunions, Funerals, and Oil Lines My daughter Elaine, grandsons Cadence and Sawyer, her husband’s sister Crissy, and Crissy’s baby Annabelle land at LAX in ten hours and twenty-five minutes.  Not that I’m counting or anything.  The U.S. Navy sent my daughter and her family to Hawaii […]