He called on his way home from fishing, but I could tell there was something wrong. “Well, I’ve got a flat tire,” he said. “Oh no. Where are you?” I asked. “Would you believe I’m just a few blocks away from our tire store? Why couldn’t the tire have blown just two minutes later? I’ve…
There are the great cathedrals of Europe and then there is Kalispell Krispy Kreme. My nephews were awake early on the morning I was tending to them, so I played the aunt and asked if they wanted to make a run for donuts before school. (I am selfless.) “Two glazed, one chocolate, and one sugar,…
“When can we start listening to Christmas music?” a student asked. “After Thanksgiving and not a day before!” I barked. (Wow, don’t ask the teacher that question again.) No holiday jumping in this house, people. (Although my husband would like to point out that I will demand a trip to the forest for a Christmas…
What was that? His alarm? That was weird and way too early on a Sunday morning. No wait –it was his phone. “Caleb?” he said. “Caleb? I can barely hear you.” I was only getting one side of the conversation. “Where are you? Okay, tell me what happened. Are you off the side of the…
Beautiful people smile and thank God for things often instead of focusing on all that is wrong in life. It makes the face light up and forms happy wrinkles in just the right places. To save you money in the makeup aisle, you may borrow from this gratitude list I scratched out while I ate…
I cried on our drive to Libby yesterday, telling Matt how I can’t stop thinking about the 8000 Syrian refugees who have been landing on the shores of Greece every day for the last month. I keep picturing one family I read about, as they threw their last possessions (money and passports) overboard, to keep…
He’s four. On the way home from his third day of preschool, he told me only two of the girls in his class like him and the rest don’t. “Oh, I bet they like you,” I say. “No, they don’t. They told me,” he said. I mentally apologized to him, on behalf of womankind. “I…
Sometimes you wake up, and you know that big thing is happening today. You’ll take that first-day-of-school picture and walk your blondy, in her brand new Mary Janes, to kindergarten. Or you’ll open the door of your classroom and meet your new students for the first time, and will they eat you for lunch, the…
I slept nary a wink the other night, and siphoning coffee from the pot was not cutting the kind of tired I was feeling. I was one step away from a bad mood, so I went downstairs and got cozy on the left-hand side of the old couch we bought before Jayme was born. That’s…
I published a segment of this post three years ago, but I have extended it and am sharing it again, because this message is on my heart. Pollyana is one of my favorite old movies. A young girl comes to a stuffy, crabby town and transforms it with her cheerful outlook and her ability to…
We celebrated a hearty meal at Famous Dave’s yesterday, to celebrate the birthday of my twin nephews. I always get the Georgia pulled pork sandwich, with a side of mashed potatoes, if you care to know. On the way home, I pulled up to the stoplight where there is always a panhandler. You never know…
The Lord asks Ezekiel (chapters 27 and 28) to take up a lament for Tyre, the famous Phoenician seaport on the Mediterranean coast. But the song of lament begins like this… Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection. Men of Persia, Lydia and Put served as soldiers…
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