Dreaming
Back when Covid was raging through the world, I woke up one morning remembering the strangest dream: I was at a church potluck, and I saw...
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- Mar 6, 2023
Rules
I was talking to a Sunday school teacher about classroom behavior and how to manage the rowdier kids during the hour he has them every...
- 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 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...
- Sep 6, 2021
Weed tree lumberjack
For the most part, my husband and I were raised as city people. A half-acre lot was plenty for our folks. They had their vegetable...
- 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...
- 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...
- Oct 19, 2020
Disagree to Disagree
I don’t get to read as much purely entertaining fiction as I’d like. They’re like dessert for me, so I don’t ingest them as much as the...
- Jan 28, 2019
Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
Sometimes it’s hard to summarize a big concept, especially when you’re talking to young children. Explaining complex and heavy topics,...
- Nov 28, 2017
Yeah. I’ve done a little modeling…
When Ezra, our African-born son, was struggling with his new language last year, we signed him up for speech lessons. At first it was...
- Oct 23, 2017
No Fair!
This morning my 6-year old Ezra woke up on the grumpy side of the bottom bunk. In his defense, it was a dark, rainy Monday, and none of...
- Nov 14, 2016
Good guy or bad guy?
Watching movies with Ezra, our five-year old son, is not exactly relaxing, that is, unless you like to give a running commentary...
- May 18, 2016
I am everything of all I have ever met
While working on an assignment for school, my daughter found an interesting line of poetry. In her poem “Finding Voice,” Joellen...
- Feb 9, 2016
Leather Sandals
When I was little, my mother would buy each of my sisters and me a pair of brown, leather sandals every year. She would caution us to...
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