My life has been a bit off lately. Do you know what I mean? I’ve been complaining about being busy. Feeling overwhelmed. And I just couldn’t figure out why. Of course, I am busy. I am overwhelmed. That’s why I feel that way. But I’m supposed to be...
“When we have kids, I hope they answer adults when they speak to them.” “Me, too.” I nodded. And I silently believed we would have complete control over this. I thought we would have well-behaved children. After all, we had been well-behaved children, ourselves....
I started off the month of June in the Emergency Room. A panic attack or acid reflux sent me to the ER in the middle of the night. I had to make sure I wasn’t having a heart attack. I wasn’t. But Todd and I lost...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
“Don’t let them get away,” I cautioned as I walked back to the car. Adrian squatted by the box on our back porch, looking at the two nine-week-old chicks while Evangeline stood by, chattering excitedly. By the time I returned with the other box of...
Spring is finally here in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever come. I think that happens to me every year—at least when we’ve had a long, cold winter. It’s been so good to get outside this past month in the...
I just finished reading Shauna Niequist’s book Bread & Wine. It was wonderful. When I read the description of blueberry crisp in her first chapter, I wanted to cry. Then I knew it was a good choice to read it now . . . that...
