I wrote an essay recently in which I described laughter as a form of prayer and this got me thinking about Sarah’s laughter at the news that she was going to bear a son. The following story is based, loosely on the story of God visiting Abraham and...
She told him, “When I was in college I read a folktale about a father pursuing a son who’d run far away, from one world to the next. The father called to him, ‘Please come back!’ But his son looked across the great gulf between them and shouted...
Yesterday I took my youngest on a tortuous trip to the Doctor and brought my oldest home early from school sick so, it seemed like a good time to post this little bit about sickness and death that I wrote a little while back. Enjoy. . . . I have set before you...
There’s a level of desperation around our house these days. Winter has set in and we’re cramped and snotty, sneezing and feverish. We’re making daily trips to the store for things we forgot and debating who should go to the Dr. next as we shuffle...
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