Tugs We Cannot Name

Cadence in Lala’s Rocker. 2008.  An Overwhelmed Heart “Do you know what tomorrow is, Cadence?” I asked as I tucked the tiny toddler, not yet two, into the vast queen-size bed in our guest room. He blinked. “Tomorrow is Mother’s Day! And your mommy will be back tomorrow. She’s going to meet us after church and […]


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The Right Wrong Number

Answer the Phone! A Case of Not-Mistaken IdentityThe email from my boss flashed on my screen while I was on the phone with a vendor, working out terms of a new contract. “Does the name Susan Swift [a pseudonym] mean anything to you?” As I listened to our vendor’s justification for her “enhanced pricing program” I […]


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The Right Wrong Number

Answer the Phone! A Case of Not-Mistaken IdentityThe email from my boss flashed on my screen while I was on the phone with a vendor, working out terms of a new contract. “Does the name Susan Swift [a pseudonym] mean anything to you?” As I listened to our vendor’s justification for her “enhanced pricing program” I […]


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A One-Night Stand with Fear

Blown Over Waiting out the WindWe listened as the wind screeched down our narrow canyon. The reporters had warned us, as breathlessly as if they’d donated their own air to the cause, that this windstorm was to be The Big One: “Hurricane-force gusts,” they promised. Through the howl we heard booms and thuds. I half-expected to […]


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Christmas Tourists

The Center of Attention My Best Friend’s Birthday This weekend, believers in Jesus Christ, our Savior, gather throughout the world to celebrate His birth. It was quite the event, seeing as how His arrival split history in two, freed us from sin’s bondage, and gave us eternal life. Love came down to rescue us a few […]


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