Just looking at this picture makes me laugh! I had turned to get us both in the frame and decided to just lay down all the way….while she was driving through a parking lot. And we both dissolved into raucous laughter, the kind that makes you glad to be alive. In this particular picture, I’d …
My maiden name is Gray. I sign my name Tamara Gray Belanger, it’s on my driver’s license, my passport, my everything official. I have kept it as part of who I am as a whole. This week my students and I were talking about the process of building a house. We explored the foundation and …
I decided to write out the Bible in this next year by hand. I’d heard of a man who did that, not even a believer in God. If he could do it, so could I. so I started today. I realize it’s not January yet but I also realize how a promise made in the …
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I got up early this morning, partly because I always do, partly because I had a cream cheese coffee cake to make at my sons’ request. I made it the first time after finding the recipe in a magazine I was reading while he took a nap in the little bed beside me. He was …
A few years back, when I felt the urge to write stronger than I felt the urge to hide, I started a blog. I wrote several entries and then held them tightly to my chest for days before I slid them quietly to a trusted few. “Are these alright?” “Am I saying anything?” “Would anyone …