Nov 26, 2016 | Personal Blog
Last night we drove home from Raleigh in the darkness, and as I sat there, squeezed in between my husband and middle child in the front seat of Todd’s truck, trying to figure out where to put my legs, I listened to the poetry Springsteen was singing from the...
Nov 23, 2016 | Personal Blog
I like to think that I’m a pretty patient mama. Or maybe after launching two grown children into the world (yes, I know one is still in my basement) I’m too worn down and tired to put up much of a fuss about anything. So why was my eighteen year old son...
Nov 18, 2016 | Personal Blog
Sometimes a child makes a simple comment, nothing shocking or noticeable, but the stunning truth of her words rings out into the world like a beautiful bell, silencing the noise around her. This is what happened on Sunday, though I didn’t hear the great ringing...
Nov 16, 2016 | Personal Blog
Remember the Room of Requirement? No? Don’t feel bad. Neither did forty some children gathered around me for my Children’s Sermon Sunday, causing my whole message to go haywire! Because I’m trying to become a person who chuckles at her mistakes...
Nov 11, 2016 | Personal Blog
Well. When last I left my blog, I was bouncing in my office chair, gushing about Sam’s first vote and the joy of witnessing kindness at the polls. My spirit was buoyed by white shirts and pantsuits, I Voted stickers and a Facebook feed full of post-voting...
Nov 8, 2016 | Personal Blog
I expected a nervous dread this morning. Yet here I sit in my office at work an hour early, bouncing in my chair, (no, it’s not just because of the tall latte I slurped down,) feeling something like JOY. Really? Joy, in the last dying gasps of the most soul...