i have a very bad memory. feelings i recall. smells. snippets of scenes. but true, clear memories are tricky. it has always been this way. vacations get blurred down to the taste of espresso in faraway places. highschool has been melted to varsity jackets in the woods, warm cans of cheap beer, and debates in…
last year i felt called to read the bible all the way through. i have read it before. the first time cover to cover in it’s entirety. and while it was of course beautiful and powerful, this time i wanted to absorb and understand more of what i was reading. i found the bible in…
anthony. i stand with you and our children today in the same spot where on my thirtieth birthday i said YES. right where we later said I DO. where we came when we adopted snoop, and where we visited when we were pregnant. this is the spot we watched our babies splash. the place i…
Im not about that “18 summers” philosophy. We don’t just have 18 summers with our children. On the other hand we aren’t guaranteed even the summer in front of us.
i have had this mug for as long as i can remember. it may have been my mother’s from her childhood. we may have “borrowed” it from a rented shore house. the details of the mug’s origins are fuzzy. what i do know is i always have loved this mug. so much so that instead…