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I’d Like My Speech to be This Beautiful. The Taming of My Tongue, Part TwoIf you’ve been reading here for a while, you might remember the tale I shared back in March about my bout with thrush, of all things, and how it helped me work on a sinful habit: unkind speech. [Yes, I know […]
1988 Portrait, Damaged in 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Restored by Dad, 2012. Never Forget Your (Grass)roots “I’ve been using Photoshop,” my dad told me last year, “to restore damaged photos.” “Oh?” I commented blandly, expecting him to tell me that something had leaked onto a box of photos in his garage. “Yes,” he said. “It’s a […]
Boys Learning Baseball. Hawaii. May, 2012. Learning’s LivelinessI can’t shut my brain off. I lie awake at night puzzling over our chart of accounts. I close my eyes, and an onscreen menu lights up my eyelids, defying my effort to sleep. I’m thinking of payables and receivables and adjusting journal entries. And I don’t even like […]
Your Assignment, Boys, is to Make Funny Faces Before Bedtime. Grandsons Cadence (5), and Ayden (7). January, 2012. The Unexpected “Paycheck” I was 11 the summer our Neighbor Lady asked me to help her out around her home. She was babysitting two grandchildren and wanted me to supervise the children while she was out attending […]
Our Front Deck. After Rain. The Echium Has Attained Seussical Proportions. The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Eight Rain blessed our land and now everything is drying and the creatures are hungry. I’m watching the Echium. Its purple torches call the bees. They’re calling the hummingbirds. The camera calls me so I step onto the deck, inhale […]
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