A few months ago, Molly asked Randy to make some color copies she needed for a language arts project.
My girl doesn’t talk much about her schoolwork, and this was the first we had heard about the assignment. It turns out that she and her classmates were researching social issues, and she had very innocently selected a topic that we felt she should learn about at home (rather than by Googling it herself at school).
I’m a writer and editor by trade, so it probably doesn’t come as a big surprise that I love words. I get excited when I’m writing and a word that has been eluding me pops into my head, or when I’m revising something and the perfect replacement phrase just flows …
Emergency vehicles filled our street on New Year’s Day. We later learned that my neighbor’s father, who had been living with her for the last few months, had passed away unexpectedly. He had been doing well, she told me, and it was a shock. The very next day, my own mom …
This is not your typical week-before-Christmas blog post, but for me, this hasn’t been a typical Christmas season. Don’t get me wrong. The last few weeks have definitely had their moments of peace, joy and merriment. But mixed in with all those moments have been periods of anxiety, stress and …
It’s time to revisit my OneWord for 2017. By revisit, I mean here, on the blog. Not in my heart and mind, where the word has been present, active and possibly even prophetic since it was impressed upon my spirit sometime last fall. Fierce. It made no sense when I …
The neighbors started putting up their Christmas decorations in mid-November, and you know what? I was totally fine with that. Maybe some other year I might have been muttering under my breath about waiting until the Thanksgiving leftovers are put away before moving on to the next holiday, but this …