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The air breathes cool through the open window, wafts past the “clean cotton” Yankee Candle votive that releases just a hint of fragrance. The shrub sways in time with the bell rope, and a hummingbird buzzes at the feeder, hovers in place, sips and savors. A...
One day I’m going to write a book, my adult son Casey tells me. It’s going to be titled “Things My Mother Never Taught Me.“ That’s not comforting news to a mother like me who homeschooled her children from kindergarten through high school and prone to fear that she...
I wake with a headache and a stiff neck. I shiver in the breeze of the open window and pull the sheet up to my chin. I breathe a prayer for those out west who can barely breathe for the heat of the air, for those who can barely breathe for the heat of life, for...
![for when the noise drowns you out and you make an idol of your writing [again]](https://b826465.smushcdn.com/826465/wp-content/uploads/writer.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”--Mother Theresa I can get so lost in how low the number of readers are or so preoccupied with my own worries and fears--you know the ones-- What would this side think of my...
I've started a new book. Well, I haven't exactly started to actually...
It’s hard work these days – with joints that flare and lungs that clog - to...
"O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust...
“…it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace…” Hebrews 13:9 (ESV)...
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