The wisdom of Bonhoeffer
One of my favorite books is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community;" I labored through it because of its richness, depth and beauty, and it changed the way I viewed (and even live out) community. ...
The perfect mother
I’m anchored to a familiar perch, a red stool at our kitchen bar. It’s one of my favorite writing spots, overlooking a squirrel’s playground every day and a bunny sanctuary on my luckiest days. She rounds the kitchen corner in a burst of morning...
Serendipity
Finding a four-leaf clover confers an odd sense of accomplishment to me. Its quad of verdant hearts enchants my own. Imagine the delight, then, when along a sizzling 3 1/2-mile power walk I discover not one but an entire elfin bouquet– Seven four-leaf...
Eucharisteo ~ The Beach Edition
I feel like there's something wrong with me; the premise of Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts is so…well…me. It's my nature to be grateful for simple things, to notice the beauty of the ordinary and every day. But I can't seem to...
Jack’s Chattanoggins: bald for a cause!
He says he's just an ordinary sixth grader but the evidence is stacked against him: After reading Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie ("a story about a middle school boy whose younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia. The boy ends...
Morning light
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~...
Dew, poetically speaking
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.~ Lord Byron In the sweetness of friendship...
You’ll kiss me twice if you didn’t already know!
It's National Doughnut Day and what better way to celebrate than with FREE DOUGHNUTS at your favorite doughnutteries?! Dunkin' Donuts are mmmmarvelous and their coffee is so wonderful we're actually members of their coffee club (I'd show ya the...
Luscious and wonderful
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ e.e. cummings It was a day of endings and beginnings– My youngest, last born, always-baby-to-me, celebrating 8th grade commencement; his, both farewell to middle school and long-anticipated...