She stood in the kitchen, slumped shoulders, after a long day of school. “I’m upset,” she said. In the last class of the day the teacher left the room, and she watched two bullies picking on a weaker student, jabbing him in the ribs while they laughed with cruelty. The guy cried, hurt by the…
I’m thinking a lot about body image today. It could be due to the hour I spent at the mall eating fries, a lot of fries (DQ fry sauce is so good!), and then going to try on clothes in front of a full length mirror. A bad plan. To say nothing of the fact that…
I dated two guys before I met Matt. The first was when I was in high school, and I was going to marry him. Then I found out in fourth period that he had asked my good friend to the dance. Those two are married now, so I guess that didn’t work out for me…
I dreamed I got shot last night. (Perhaps one should not watch a graphic documentary on the Vietnam conflict immediately before bed.) I laid there completely weak and unable to move. All I could say was, I’ve been hit. Someone covered me with a blanket, and I remember waiting for an ambulance. We take real hits…
Years ago, when my kids were still young, insomnia introduced itself to me. I used to sleep solid all night, and then one night I woke up early, about the time bakers are waking up to get doughnuts going, and couldn’t go back to sleep. Insomnia became a regular part of my life. It wasn’t…
The water ran stone cold from the faucet. My daughter couldn’t fill the bathtub, and I couldn’t do the dishes. (A disappointment for one –a cause of celebration for the other.) “I bet the pilot light is out,” said Matt. He laid down on the cement by the hot water heater. “Yup. The pilot is…
I was a choir nerd in high school. You know what I mean. I lived in my world, and the jocks lived in theirs -never the two shall meet. Then a cheerleader joined choir, and we got to know each other. It was the Friday of a big football game, and the whole school filed…
My husband and I attended a scholars ceremony where our baby girl received a letter for seven semesters in a row of maintaining a 4.0. As she stood on the stage, I thought back to everything it took for her to get to this place… An hour on my bed with flash cards, trying to help her…
My son has been playing a city-building game on his iPod. He was bragging last night that he used dynamite to blow a hole in the ground, and then he filled the entire base of the city with trampolines. (I think this child needs more chores to do.) He proudly showed me how he was…
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….
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