“What are you giving up for Lent this year?”, a friend at work asked last week. Hmm. This Lent thing is still kind of new to me. Having grown up in the Baptist church where Lent was considered, slightly, ahem, Catholic, I never really practiced it. But now that I attend the Methodist church I’ve… Continue reading Lenten Failure
Daffodil Strength
My daffodils are here and they give me hope. Years ago when we first moved into our old house, we began transplanting daffodils around the yard. Patches of them grew in the woods around us, leftover from the days when tenant houses were there. I think of them as wild, although I don’t know if […]
A Light in the Corner
We finally took down our Christmas tree on Saturday, halfway through January. I’ve always taken it down before I go back to school after Christmas break, but my timing got a little thrown off this year with New Year’s falling on the week-end. The plan was to take it down after church on New Year’s… Continue reading A Light in the Corner
Scary Things
Each day as I walk down the hall of my school to the media center, I pass a bulletin board full of inspirational quotes by famous people. One in particular that is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt always jumps out at me: Doing a scary thing every single day is a little much, but the idea… Continue reading Scary Things
A Watershed Year
2016 has been a watershed year for my family. In May our son Adam married his soulmate Jess, a beautiful, smart, spunky young woman who is his equal in everything but height. Preparations and anticipation of the big day took up most of the first half of the year. In September, my aunt Beth… Continue reading A Watershed Year
Under the Magnolia Tree 