It was all planned and I was ready to settle into it. It would be a solo Christmas. I’d had such a good year of, what felt like, Christmas come early. My yearly spring trip to South Korea, like coming home to a culture and people that has wrapped itself around my heart. I understand …
There’s a lovely home nearby where I live that sits on an incine. I never pass it without thinking of her. I did not know her but many times, when I’d pass, she would be sitting out on their porch swing, her white hair fairly glistening, all alone. She reminded me of the little old …
It’s been a bit of a barn burner the past several weeks in some personal matters. No details are needed but we’ve all been there. Relationships are the easiest things to set on fire and the hardest fires to put out. After the last go round I couldn’t even find a cooking mitt big enough …
Twenty three years ago I watched a young woman stand and agree before God and everyone else that she would love and cherish a young man as his wife. I knew her mother, a fellow home-schooler I’d met through a mothers’ online group; she in the Colorado mountains and me in the rolling hills of …
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I woke up alone. For the past few weeks, I have had the privilege of the company of my grandson several days a week. I cherish the time that the school rhythm and parenting plans edged out. But this morning, my grandson home with his parents for the weekend, I woke up from a refreshing …
