Sometimes I feel like a fairly intelligent person –able to manage a household and be a writer and teach a Spanish class. Then there was last week when the fire alarm went off at school, and I could not for the life of me remember all of the procedures. The students and I left the…
My personal re-telling of Ezekiel 8… He dug into the hole in the wall, as instructed. There he saw a doorway. Opening the door and stepping in, letting his eyes adjust to the dark, he looked and saw pictures on the wall, from floor to ceiling, of all the things she had decided would finally…
I will beg my tech-smart brother not to mock me here when I say that I finally got the hang of how to upload pictures from CD to my computer. My kids have been all like, Mom, why haven’t you put your pictures on your computer? And I’m all like, Guys. It wasn’t that long…
He had planned to go fishing. But while I loaded the dishwasher he poured coffee and said, What are you gonna do today? I said something about working on something. We could go kayaking, he said. I would love to go kayaking. Would you really give up fishing so we could do that? I said….
I am not one to scream, but that lawn mower… Sixteen years in service, and I suppose it had the right to stop dead in its tracks on only the second pass around the yard, although this seemed unjust after the numerous, shoulder-separating yanks I gave just to have it sputter reluctantly to start. I…
I could see the panic in her eyes the second after she pushed the cart. She could tell it was going to crash into my car, so in one of those slow-mo’s she attempted to catch it, without success. At the same time I was doing hand signals to try to get her to relax….
Mom, you don’t know what you started when you groaned about having to endure personality testing at work. I made the mistake of telling Mr. Masters in Psychology, and pretty soon we were all getting Myers-Briggs scores as evening entertainment. And Mom, just so you know –you scored a “Wonderful”. At least, that’s how we…
It was just one of those weeks for him, ya know? Nothing bad happening, just a lot. A wedding to prepare, a Bible study to teach, a sermon to write, a planning meeting to attend. And then, of course, a few nights of not sleeping well. So I kissed him and watched him drive away…
Since school begins for me today, I present to you my version of Psalm 23 from the teacher’s perspective: Me –clearing throat: The Lord is my administrator, I shall not be in want. He makes me walk into a teacher’s work room with new copiers and a fresh supply of colorful card stock. …
Do you know what I’m afraid of the most? I said, as I slipped on socks before bed. (Keepin’ the romance alive.) What? he said. Knowing when school starts I’m going to mess up something with someone, I said. Yes you are, he said. And you’ll be in a school full of other teachers who…
We spent hours learning about quality assessment, and I thought it was so FUN, which I’m pretty sure is weird. I love being with teachers. When we took breaks and had lunch, do you know what we talked about? Assessment. Meanwhile, during the teacher in-service retreat, we had opportunities to go back to our rooms and…
I’m picturing him bending over to come out of the crawlspace, suitcase in tow. And his wife is all, What in the world are you doing? We’re moving, Abram says. They move –the whole kit and caboodle. Just because God says. And it’s a little nuts. So there I was… A few Januaries ago when…
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