Closed Doors and Tests to Get In
When one of my nieces was three, she was a little parrot, eager to participate in adult conversation, contributing her own versions of phrases she had heard. “How in the world are you doing?” became “How are you doing in the world?” So I ask you, how are you doing in...
Wayward Crayons and a Box for Us All
There are books for children and then there are books for ALL OF US that only look like they’re for children. The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt’s hilarious, profound story about Duncan and his wayward crayons, is the latter, a must have for EVERYONE on...
Broken Things and My Boyfriend Atticus Finch
It had been nearly three months since Angie missed a stair on a Florida vacation and her body and life took a wild tumble. Her ankle was broken in three places and so were all the routines in her family’s days. Grandma moved in to help, there was surgery and two...
Fearless? The Mop Bucket and Prayers for Prayers
“Kids are just fearless,” he said a few years ago, shaking his head at how beautifully and bravely our team of fifth graders had led us in litanies and prayers and scripture reading on Children’s Sabbath. I knew what my friend was getting at, that it takes a lot of...
The Boss of the Cornfield
Flickr photo by Bulsti, creative commons If it’d been up to her, I’m sure Janice would never have hired me. She needed a girl with arm muscles, someone tough enough to tramp through cornfields in the blazing summer heat, to dig holes eighteen inches deep with only a...
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