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….
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,…
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