I only have to yell, Dinner! My children’s father takes over from there. Sitting around the table after a long day of school and work, he looks first to our son and says, Tell me what happened in first period. We all laugh, because we know where this is going. It’s the same every day….
We went to a Thursday service at Youth With a Mission last night. Â It was a rather raucous event, with music louder than comfortable for our ears, in a room full of people young enough to be our own children. A visiting missionary from Taiwan spoke to us from the Bible. It was food to…
I used the last of the toilet paper yesterday. Since the beginning of toilet paper, which, according to Wikipedia, was used first by the Chinese in 6th century AD, there has been conflict within the user of the last square, about whether to replace the roll or leave it for the next guy to do….
I ate hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when I was growing up, because I was that picky kid who turned up her nose at everything put on the table. Then one time I came down with a nasty head cold. I made myself the usual PB&J, but it tasted horrible. My stuffed…
Honey, there’s something on your leg. It was a tic. On a beautiful spring day, we set out with friends for a casual walk along a railroad grade. When I got up closer to him I saw it was tics. Plural. Lots of tics all over our legs. We looked down, and they were like…
I recently discovered the ethereal fact that in Ireland there are historical geographic sites called thin places. You can take a tour of them –sacred natural landscapes where the distance between this world and heaven are said to be thin. Where God seems closer. This was a fascinating concept but not practical, for a woman who…
We happily agreed to loan our ski pants to a friend -a quiet, reserved friend. He didn’t know the pants were neon green. I wish you could have seen his face when I pulled those out of the front closet. I later laughingly asked his wife what she thought of the pants, and she said,…
I am at my desk, and right now the papers I just printed look like an accordion, because so much stuff was stacked in front of the printer when they came out. There’s a battery sitting here, and I don’t know if it’s old or new. There is a pile of necklaces I used in…
We watched two shows back-to-back this weekend.  Both were set in Alaska. The first was about men looking for gold on the ocean floor. Cussing – greedy – fighting men. One man had divorced his wife to look for gold in Alaska. She thought the idea of looking for gold was foolish, so he left…
On Mondays, at 5:30, I attend a meeting, and everyone is always Monday frazzled. I can feel it when I walk in and see the saggy bodies and half-smile hellos. Several weeks ago our leader instituted a mandatory group cheer to begin each meeting. It’s ridiculous. He makes us all stand up and gather together, which…
I had an 8:00 class in college. On that day, I would crack open the bathroom door to shed a tiny bit of light into the dorm room, so I could get dressed without waking my roommate. Because I’m OCD about certain things, I’ve always arranged my socks by color in the drawer, so I thought I…
It’s a goal-making kind of day. This year I will clean regularly. I will read the Bible every day. I will exercise myself back into those jeans (which spent all of December 26 unsnapped). I will… But it’s not the resolve that stands with chin up today. It’s the I can. Any mom wills to…
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