We Have No Maps

“We have no maps, nothing but the inner directions that seem to emerge as we engage the questions and risk moving toward the dream.  Together we will learn where we’re going.”    – Judy Cannato The man I now love invited me...

Two Boys, Two Stories, Two Paths

Brennan Manning, the beloved author of The Raggamuffin Gospel died this past Friday, April 12.  I never read the Raggamuffin Gospel, but I did somehow stumble onto one of Manning’s later books, Abba’s Child.  His gentle yet piercing...

The Hairs of Our Heads

Look at that beautiful fuzz! My friend posted on facebook that she was planning to take her little boy for his first hair cut and since our boys are the same age I felt a wave of maternal anxiety at the idea.  My youngest arrived with a precious...

Outlaws and Rebels, Every One

“They crucified two rebels with him, one on his left and one on his right.” Matthew 27:38 *   *   *   *   *   My 18 month-old boys saunter through the house with swaggering bravado like two...

Love is Vertigo (a falling, floundering thing)

Christmas morning 2010, the Corvette we found for $25 on Craigslist. I turned to see my two and four year old children driving their little yellow Corvette through our small, cramped living room.  I was standing in the doorway between rooms interviewing a...
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