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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...
May 14, 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...
Mar 6, 2023


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...
Nov 28, 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...
Aug 9, 2022


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...
Sep 6, 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...
Apr 5, 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 25, 2021


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...
Oct 19, 2020
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,...
Jan 28, 2019
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...
Nov 28, 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...
Oct 23, 2017
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...
Nov 14, 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...
May 18, 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...
Feb 9, 2016
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