“We know how to spend time together.”
Today a younger couple came to our home after church and brought lunch for everybody. After trying unsuccessfully to set up a date night or
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Today a younger couple came to our home after church and brought lunch for everybody. After trying unsuccessfully to set up a date night or
For the past three afternoons, I’ve walked in this setting, across this landscape. I’ve seen the tracks of rabbits. I’ve seen three hawks circling in
This morning my husband and I discuss diacouragement in our work lives. It comes! It happens! What I’ve learned in the last ten years is
Notice anything about my succulent (crassula ovata “Jade”) plant? This is the plant I’ve neglected and damaged with all my moving it about. But look!
I remember William Wordsworth’s famous line in the 1800 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads that “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes
Today I learn from my cycling friend about the Sag Wagon. She claims that on her next 100 mile bike ride, I can drive the
My daughter tells me that she’s having trouble “exporting imagination.” It’s a strange verb to use. I imagine the country of her incredible brain needing
Today I attended my first Eagle Scout Court of Honor for the son of some dear friends of ours. I cried at several points as
So many students ask me about writer’s block and how I write so much every day. When I tell them that I rarely struggle with
A student I just met–we were strangers on Monday–asks if she can photograph me for her class “Stranger Project.” “Sure,” I say. Why Not? She