Selah: a pause during which to reflect I experienced Selah last Thursday—both the definition above and the two-year-old girl version. My lifelong friend was moving, so I had the privilege of watching her wispy-curled, rosebud-mouthed, Shirley Temple look-a-like, Selah! Keeping a two-year-old put my normal productivity on pause. We played with the nesting doll and […]
I glimpse wings from the window of my bedroom and walk outside for a closer look. I’d read that Gregg’s Blue Mistflower was a butterfly magnet, but this? Six pairs of wings! I drop to my knees, snapping pictures. The monarchs fold their wings like praying hands while sipping. Then, effortlessly, they flutter above my […]
There are some things I just can’t get enough of . . . strawberries (my children eat them up as soon as I wash them), guacamole (avocados are expensive, so I always end up making too little to go around), sleep, and hummingbirds. It is hummingbird season in Texas! This morning I was elated to […]
My little one started school this week, so that makes two boys gone all day and one lonely mama. Summer is over, but it was full of wonder . . . Valerie delivering the answer to my earnest prayer: Yes, John needed freedom to ride! Roses carried home on the back of a motorcycle God blessing me again and […]
Earlier this summer, a six-year-old girl from my son’s class came to visit. She told me what she wants to be when she grows up. (I don’t remember asking that dreaded question. I remember how awkward it was to answer when I was a child!) “I want to be a mermaid who swims with cats,” […]
I wonder if only children know that it is possible to feel lonely in a big family. One loud family gathering morphs into the next until a loved one says, “Remember when . . . ,” forgetting you weren’t at that particular party. Or, the house is so full of people eating and laughing that no […]
Let me relate this spring to you as an imaginary ballet. It begins in the past. A mother holds her blond toddler’s hand as they skip through crowds of adults who stop to pat his head, smile, blow kisses. In an instant, the child grows into a tween. Most of the grown-ups grow indifferent. A […]
I tried to memorize him before he left and again when he returned. After a weekend of zooming down country roads on a rented motorcycle, John came home refreshed. We sat in the white rocking chairs on the back patio, and he told me stories about his trip . . . one fairly close call, […]
By the grace of God, I am in Vermont today—a place I’ve dreamed of for so long! The home of Tasha Tudor! The setting of Holiday Inn and Baby Boom! A month ago, I simply mentioned to my sister that Vermont was my dream destination. She said she had to travel here on business and invited […]
I recently had the pleasure of reading Martha’s Vineyard: Isle of Dreams. When the author, Susan Branch, buys a cottage on Martha’s Vineyard, she “inherits” all the possessions of the elderly woman who had lived in it for years until she moved to a nursing home and passed away. Susan sadly concludes that among all the woman’s […]
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