06 Jul What I’m Into: June 2016
We are very much in summer mode here in the Treat household. June 1st was the last day of school for Camilla and it seems pointless to try to continue Adrian’s schooling while she’s home. So we’re sleeping in...
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23 Jun A Story from Haiti
We slipped out of the gate and quietly made our way down the street. Following Richard, our host. Two black boys walked with us. They’d been playing at Richard’s house, but I didn’t know their names.“We’re going to your neighborhood,” Richard said to them, in...
16 Jun Ode to my Smooth-Surface Electric Range
Yesterday marked 16 years since the love of my life popped the question. I just realized this a moment ago. I was thinking about the date because I wondered just how old our range is. It was a wedding gift from Todd’s parents, so it's nearing...
07 May What I’m Into: April 2016
Wow! I turn my back for a second and April is over? Just like that? What I’ve Been Doing . . . If we’re friends on Facebook or In Real Life, you already know that Todd and I joined a group from our church on a...
29 Mar Terror by Night
Friendly Warning: This post contains sensitive material. It’s a complex emotion. Fear. We all have a relationship with it. Lately I’ve been pondering it. Wrestling with it. Analyzing it. Trying various methods of combatting it. And sometimes giving in to it. Fear can be good. Adrenaline helps you...
06 Mar What I’m Into: February 2016
If you’ve been reading my blog, you know we had a rough start to 2016. I’m still struggling and grieving, but also making progress and embracing joy. It’s been a long time since I’ve linked up with Leigh Kramer for “What I’m Into.” February was a...
29 Jan Saying Good-Bye . . .
I have a memory of my friend Laurie . . . We are sitting on a set of bleachers together, warm sunshine pouring down on us. She tells me the story of her husband proposing. He’s out there in front of us, playing softball on...
15 Jan A Fresh Start
The beginning of a new year is always a little anticlimactic for me. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way. The season I perceive as our busiest comes to a close. I spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s relaxing,...
19 Nov My Take on the Global Crisis
I’m not a political writer. I hate politics. I hate debates. I can’t think on my feet and I mostly just want to ignore the kind of political fights I see on Facebook.But more than that, I hate so much of what I see in...
22 Oct Kick that Guilty Habit!
She arrived home from school and the badgering began. “When are you going to send that form in? There are only two other people in my class who haven’t sent it in yet. You have to do it by...