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I’m pretty sure my wedding dress is still in there--though I can’t be totally sure since I haven’t opened that box since the cleaners sealed it in 1971. They buried my husband’s grandmother in hers. If I passed on today, there’s not a chance they’d be able to...
I sit in quiet and wait. Though I've been nagging God for answers and insight, He remains silent on a particular issue I keep bringing before Him. I'm puzzling over the questions I'm asking--are they the right ones? Is my focus in the wrong place? Maybe. And some...
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...
A thread unravels from the edges of her old shirt in the dryer and winds...
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love...
I've started a new book. Well, I haven't exactly started to actually...
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