I would never use a bread machine. This is no judgment on you who have one, except to say you’re missing the best part. It’s the kneading that satisfies. There’s something about tilting the bowl with my left hand and then working the loose materials with my right, until they form a cohesive mass of…
It was sobering several months ago, when my normally very healthy mother informed me that she had been to the doctor for a physical and had been told she had diabetes. Any A1C number around 7 is diabetic, and her number was 7.1. We had watched her dad suffer for years with the slow and…
I’ve been a little teary over the last few weeks. Mom and I were talking about it, as we come up on the fifth anniversary of my dad going to be with Jesus. “It’s not the anniversary that’s getting to me,” I said to her. “It’s what I see happening in my own life.” My…
One thing I’ve loved (and hated) about the principal I work for is that he has really pushed me to do important things in teaching that I have not wanted to do. If I had been left on my own over these last five-plus years, I never would have grown so much in confronting students…
I was listening to a podcast, in which Jamie Ivey was interviewing Priscilla Shirer. Jamie asked, “Priscilla, what would you say to your 20-year-old self?” Her response was almost lost to me, because I turned the question on myself and got the most surprising answer. What would I say to my 20-year-old self, now that…
You should see the house my son-in-law and daughter bought last year. It’s quaint and is located in an old neighborhood, with huge trees that overhang the street and drop a carpet of gold leaves on the ground about this time every year. The plan is to renovate and flip the house, and they’ve done…
Maybe if blogs had scent, then you could have smelled how hard I worked on Saturday. The landscaping pavers that circled my mother-in-law’s tree had slowly shifted uneven with time, so I determined to pull them all out, level the ground with sand, and put them back. Backbreaking but not all that complicated. I finished…
I’ve had a bad run over the last few weeks. When I say “run,” I mean a streak of impulsive behaviors followed by guilt followed by misery followed by the humiliating need to apologize. No boulders of sin, mind you, but a pebble of rebelliousness here, a little disrespect there, a regular thoughtlessness everywhere. Feels…
Not to make a big deal out of it or anything, but… TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! If you’ve been hearty enough to stay with me for a few years, you know that I have an inner seven-year-old whose eyes light up at the thought of confetti cupcakes and getting presents. Ask me how old I…
In the department store yesterday, I ran into an acquaintance, and we had a long chat –the kind you can have in the summer when you’re not in a hurry to go anywhere. She told me about a man who had been an alcoholic for years. The Lord had burdened her heart to help him,…
“So what are you going to do with your day off?” Matt asked. “What am I really going to do or what am I thinking I’m going to do?” I replied. “Because what I’m thinking is that I’m going to spend the weekend doing a spring clean of the house.” That was our Thursday night…
Put yourself in my place, as my hands hovered over the computer keyboard. I was writing my first contact to an editor. Do you know how long I spent checking my email to her? She wielded a red pen for a living, and I was terrified of spelling something wrong or of making a grammar…
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