My boy got his first job, at a terrific burger joint downtown. It’s an old fashioned soda counter and candy shop. He said yesterday a man came in from down south who was on a road trip to the north country, and he told Caleb this Kalispell landmark was one of the places on his…
Yesterday I got in a very dirty Mitsubishi with my two children and said a teary goodbye to my family in Wyoming. The kids and I settled in for the 12-hour drive back to the north corner of Montana. Always when I start this trip I hope maybe it won’t be 12 hours this time….
Over the last few weeks, I’ve realized I probably should go outside. I see pictures of people on Facebook who have been outside, and it seems interesting but foreign. Here I am in the house reading books and…reading books. I opened a friend’s blog post a few days ago and scrolled through pictures of her…
There were rumblings in a certain family on New Year’s Day. I won’t say who, but certain people with sermons and other people who were enjoying sleeping in every day and other people who had Spanish class to think about might have been moaning about getting back into the swing of things soon. I thought…
You know, TBT (Throw-Back Thursday) is all the thing on social media. But every time I sit down to write for a Monday I often do a shoulder-raising inhale followed by a slump, so how about Big Sigh Monday as a new trend? I sit at my computer this Sunday evening. We just finished burgers…
I don’t know what kind of person you are at the pool, but I’m one to sit on the edge of the shallow end and put just the tip of my toe into the water. Then five minutes later the whole toe. And by the time everyone else is toweling off I’m just about ready…
My daughter hates writing papers. She expresses herself well, but every sentence she writes comes slowly and with great labor. So she was thrilled when her literature professor in college declared the final would be an eight-page paper they could work on for two weeks and email to him when the final was due. This…
My momma says it’s like the weeks after Christmas, when all the hoopla is over and you feel the letdown. For two weeks I have had this feeling, along with trouble getting out of bed and working up the fortitude to get dressed and keep moving. When we feel low, the temptation is to curl up…
I went to a baby shower this weekend (an unfortunate reminder of my advancing age). As I sat fairly close to the mother-to-be, it fell to me to hold the garbage sack. For an hour, while the mom opened gifts, I dutifully filled the sack with wrapping paper, ribbon, and tissue paper. I was helping….
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