Love Comes in Bytes and Pixels

My Daughter, Her Son, My Dad, His Bride Extending Our Reach Today is the day we honor love. My husband  reserved a table at our favorite restaurant; he booked it via the restaurant’s website. I posted Valentine wishes on my daughter’s Facebook page (yesterday, because in Guam it’s tomorrow). My e-mail this morning delivered a lovely […]


Weekend Reflection: Fearless

Nativity.  9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For […]


Giving Tastes Like Turkey

Love Offering. Thanksgiving, 2012. A Secret I Kept From Myself Rich and I host Thanksgiving every year. We’ve hosted it every year of our married life, beginning in 2007, just two months after our wedding. I love it. The usual suspects are my brother and his family, my sister and her family, and my dad […]


Lipstick Time

Elaine, Me, Mom. May, 1984. Speeding at a Standstill A few weeks ago, I left on a Thursday evening to meet my daughter. On my way out the door, I slipped a lipstick into my purse. She’d left the tube of Viva Glam in my car the last time I’d seen her and I had […]


The Clicker Episode

Remotes. Honest. Wrong Turns, Right TrackMy beloved husband, Rich, and I know one another well. We share our lives, our home, our hearts. We worship together, eat most of our meals together, and stroke the same dogs’ heads as we relax in evenings. We climb into the same bed at night. Those details, along with our status […]