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Blueberry Patches and Defaulting to the Familiar 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
I heard the call, the call to blueberry picking. To the familiar I drove, to the blueberry patch beside Hidden Springs Creek that lies empty most of the year, empty until the rain comes and it overflo...
The Opposite Day Paradigm of Last 23 Aug 2013 | 11:15 am
This is 5 Minute Friday – and Lisa Jo invites me – and you – to bare it all in a 5 minute prompt- to write “in shades of real and brave and unscripted” – which means it isn’t always pretty. This week,...
Language and Literacy for God Letters and Messages 19 Aug 2013 | 09:24 am
Un tout petit peu de français - but enough to recognize the French lady sitting across the table from me calling her son a “couchon” when he wolfed down the truffles I’d made for our afternoon play da...
A Forever Girl 14 Aug 2013 | 08:41 am
A Letter to My Granddaughter on the Event of My 30th Wedding Anniversary Sweet Grandbaby Girl, I hope you grow up to be a Forever Girl – and by Forever Girl, I mean a wife full of love for her husband...
Bucket Lists and Faith Sleeves: Thoughts on My Birthday 9 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
Thoughts on the day before my birthday (note: It is a dangerous thing – giving a mom time to string thoughts together – much like green beans climbing a pole): “What’s on your bucket list to do before...
The Real Fairy Tale Stories 2 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
After living broken beyond bones this week, I was ready for Lisa Jo’s word this week – Story. I love stories – how they take me out of my brokenness into hope stories. Literature from the 1800s to the...
Broken Beyond Bones 29 Jul 2013 | 12:42 am
I was too tired Thursday night to check Lisa-Jo’s prompt for 5 Minutes Friday. I remember thinking, “I hope it’s broken – that would a beautiful coincidence.” You see, Thursday had been spent over an ...
From Kitchen Counter Ministry to Couch Rebels 24 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
I’ve been raising 5 boys to men with my husband – not in our hometowns but in a town He sent us to. This new hometown is my boys’ hometown – and in the raising of these boys, I have become “hometown-l...
On the Outside Looking In 19 Jul 2013 | 01:06 pm
Growing up, riding the yellow school bus to school, I loved those dark mornings, passing houses, seeing a warm glow coming from a few windows – and I would imagine families in there, families with a m...
When A Teen Runs 16 Jul 2013 | 10:49 pm
He’d pulled a knife on my son, in the 7th grade hallway. Pulled it and said he was going to stab him in the back and kill him next week. This boy ran away shortly after that. He was a habitual runaway...
