I’m Gonna Miss That Boy

Tomorrow, they turn two and two weeks later my big boy will head off to kindergarten.  We walked last night through the spritzing rain and I held his hand with the always dry, cracking skin while my husband pushed the big wide stroller brimming...

These Flowers

All four kids piled onto the red metal handcart, two in front and two in the back balanced on top of two bags of mulch.  I pulled them carefully, slowly, through the lawn and garden section of Lowes, like one of those grand Belgian draft horses you...

Where the Wild Things Are

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God . . . John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Mark 1:1-4 adapted I met my friend in the wilderness the other night. Well, it...

Deer Paths and the Distance Between Body and Soul

My participation in Oasis’ Journey into Silence began with two days and nights of prayer, silence and solitude spent journaling, wandering and re-collecting myself.  Then I returned home to the ocean of intensity, chaos and noise that typifies life with four...

This Nest, These Birds

When we came for a viewing of the house we live in now, my husband and I were like a pair of young love-birds looking for a place to nest, though we wouldn’t have said it in as many words.  After guiding us through the house from bottom to top, the homeowner...
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