by Robin | Sep 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
It was good and it was grace and it was gift I never expected; in fact, I had imagined the opposite. Headed to a place thousands of miles from home where we didn’t know a soul, not speaking or understanding the language, differences in culture and...
by Robin | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Does your mind immediately go to those physical attributes you wish were different? There's two kinds of those, of course. The kind God knit together in secret places and before time…and...
by Robin | Aug 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
In need of tender loving, my yard called me out the other day. Sometimes a place is so lonely it shows. There was work to be done, the kind that slippers you in a film of sweat and grime and manufactures nasty blisters, an unpleasant reminder that garden...
by Robin | Aug 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
I cannot believe I missed it, something everyone else I've talked to seem to notice right away. I can't believe it went right over my head and never, ever, EVER occurred to me until someone else pointed it out. I've always thought I was one of those...
by Robin | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Photographed by Dan Henry, talented photographer with the Times Free Press Sometimes reality tiptoes up behind you and smacks you upside the head with truth so obvious it's a bloomin' wonder you can see well enough to read: I haven't been a 20-something...
by Robin | Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I wonder if I make you sick when I write; mainly about remembrances and memoirs dedicated to my children. Here's why I wonder: I never reveal the dark side. Most of the time I'll disclaim perfection lest a reader think I'm declaring my babies...