Kink in my hose
Looking out at the dreary winter landscape that is my backyard in February, I have to rally my senses to look forward to a lovelier...
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- Jan 30
Pushing the buttons
Before our schedules became too busy for family trips in the summertime, we used to take an annual trip to a high-rise condo at the...
- Dec 30, 2022
Leap of faith
I’m not much of a daredevil. I’ll ride a few roller coasters in the summer and maybe glide on a sled once a year if we get enough snow,...
- Nov 28, 2022
Longing for Dawn
My older son was a horrible sleeper for his entire first year. He was remarkably pleasant when he was awake during the day, basically...
- Aug 16, 2022
Rest from gleaning
In the second chapter of the Book of Ruth, we see the two widows, Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth, after they’ve traveled from Moab to...
- Aug 9, 2022
Crossroads
Centuries after the trumpet sound had finished echoing off the stones which used to be the walls of Jericho and centuries before King...
- Jun 27, 2022
Poison ivy
So it all started with a dead pine tree. Our yard is bordered by these giant conifers, and one of them up and died. We had a couple of...
- Jan 3, 2022
Artificial reefs
“They don’t know that it isn’t real.” This was the reply from Rodrigo, the man who took our family snorkeling on his little boat, the...
- Dec 6, 2021
We are the champions
Last weekend, our youngest son’s soccer team played in a tournament in Gatlinburg. Back in August, when they first listed it among the...
- Oct 11, 2021
Line of dominoes
A few weeks ago, I heard an unmistakable chirping sound as I walked through the basement to the laundry room. We had recently changed the...
- Sep 27, 2021
A little help
As I was sitting on the sidelines of one of my sons’ soccer games recently, I heard a familiar question, “A little help?” It was part...
- Aug 30, 2021
Stockpiling God’s blessings
Our two sons are both on travel soccer teams. This means that they seem to be playing ball all the time. In the winter, we’ve watched...
- Apr 5, 2021
Greatest of All Time
Somewhere between 4th grade and 7th grade, it was a common pastime for girls in my school to rank their friends. “Tiffany is my first...
- Feb 22, 2021
Hold my ladder
As a homeowner, there are plenty of jobs most of us just don’t enjoy doing: weed-eating, grout-cleaning, baseboard-dusting, etc....
- Jan 25, 2021
Would You Rather?
Our youngest son was recently interested in the game “Would You Rather?” In it, a person asks another person questions like: “Would you...
- Jan 11, 2021
What’s real?
As we watched a complicated battle scene in the new Mulan movie a few nights ago, my youngest son said, “It would be hard to be an...
- Nov 30, 2020
Hope for an untangled future
Per our usual tradition, my family put up our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. (By the way, this isn’t a discussion...
- Nov 6, 2020
Trimming the edges
I’m not trying to brag, but I have a massive art collection. It’s true. All of them are one-of-a-kind originals. Sure, they were made in...
- Oct 9, 2020
Alarming
I can’t think of anything more confusing than suddenly being awakened from a deep sleep in the middle of the night, unless it’s suddenly...
- May 11, 2020
Warp and Weft
I’ve been doing a little sewing lately—a set of curtains, hemming a couple of skirts, and, of course, cloth masks. Fabric is one of those...
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