I love this image of Christ in the Wilderness gathering Wild Flowers painted by Stanley Spencer. I decided last weekend that I would try to write 500 words, five days a week for the month of March. And I nearly did this past week. But still, I came...
It sat alone, across the muddy tractor tracks, next to the stinking porta-potties in a wide and muddy pit. Enjoying the wagon ride out to the fields, the hacksaw in hand and children all around, my husband and I hardly noticed the wide plastic sign,...
I’m here to make a confession. Are you ready? Here goes . . . I’ve become a little obsessed with the tall leather boots everyone seems to be wearing these days. Boots paired with skinny jeans, boots paired with dresses, brown boots, black boots,...
This post from 2012 is one of my favorites. The twins were just over a year old, Solomon was four and Sophia was in first grade. I can’t find the pictures that go with that Halloween, they’re on an old computer, but the story should...
That night I baked Zucchini bread from her recipe, four small loaves, and lit a green candle in the top of one. “Are we having a party because she died?” my six year old son asks. “We’re lighting a candle to honor her life,” I said. “Oh,” he adds, “that’s what I...
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