We have a most exciting date planned this week –that man and I. We’ve already been to Hooper’s Nursery to scout out the perfect tree for our back yard. Now we just need a free evening to dig a hole (“we” meaning “him”) and plant our 25th anniversary celebratory tree. We’ve chosen one with red…
Picture a sheep against a dark background, looking at you from a page in the National Geographic. He has been sheered down one side, from nose to tail, in an attempt to show a season of wool growth. But the photographers went through several sheep, before they could find one that could stand up long…
I bent over to fill the red, plastic gas container at the filling station, so I could go home and mow the lawn. While the numbers clicked up on the pump, I killed time by reading the instructions on the handle of the hose. Why aren’t these in English and Spanish? I thought, annoyed at…
We were looking at one week with my brother-in-law, and I knew going in that it was going to test me in all of my weakest areas. So I’ll confess that the week before I reenacted Chernobyl for my husband. “This is going to be one big fail,” I cried. Because there would be a…
It was empty. I immediately asked, Is today a holiday? But no. We just didn’t get any mail, so the box was a black hole of disappointment. Not even a sales flier? Shoulder sag. There it was again –the idolatry of heart that I had been learning about for a few years. I was starting…
I’ll begin with Beverly, and eventually you will see where I’m going with this. She is half Australian Shepherd, half Border Collie, and she just got her 12-week shots. My daughter has brought her new dog along, to stay with us for a week while her husband’s away, so we are tag-teaming the puppy thing….
One week to our 25th wedding anniversary, so you should know about a longstanding joke between Matt and me. I’ll make some insightful comment about a person, and Matt will disagree. I’ll argue with him, because…I argue. The disagreement escalates, until finally I bark at him, “Honey, which one of us knows people?” Then we…
Today, I would like to tell you about my dad, and I can’t think of a better way for you to get to know him than by showing you a note he wrote me many years ago. Poems beginning in “Roses are red, violets are blue” were to my dad’s side of the family what…
It’s time for a fun Mexican food day in my Spanish class, so I’m having Qdoba catered during the lunch hour. But do you know that I almost broke out into hives just planning this? My administrative skills: 0. I’m trying not to panic that I’ve probably messed up some detail. My students wish we…
“I’ve got to run and get paint supplies,” I said to my son. “Do you want me to go with you?” he replied. A heroic offer, since he had just relaxed on the couch to watch a sitcom. He turned off the TV before I had even answered, and we hopped into the car. On…
I chose the second lane in the bank drive-through and sent the tube with my paperwork. When the bank lady returned the tube, I asked her if I could borrow the pen and return it the next time I came to the bank. (I was on my way to a wedding shower and needed to…
I was finishing up my bowl of mini-wheats, which means coffee and Bible reading was next in my morning routine. But I was hit by an unexpected feeling of boredom. Last week I started a slow read through the book of John, which is my favorite gospel, but I’ve read it a lot. There wasn’t…
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