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TOGETHER

A few months ago I was talking to a friend of mine. She said this to me: “You just always seem like you’ve got it together.” Um-hum. Fluke. And then today a co-worker said the exact same thing. I am beyond befuddlement. I do not know who they see. So let me set the recordContinue reading “TOGETHER”

BABY

There has never been a longer walk than the one I just made from my baby’s kindergarten class to our minivan in the back of the parking lot. Michael has asked me to please stop calling him a baby, and I cannot. My mom still calls me her baby, and so I have resolved thatContinue reading “BABY”

JAMAICA

Our legs moved slowly through the palpable heat as we ascended the slight hill to the modest meeting house for worship. Slowly, because that is the only speed left after a full day of travel including a four hour layover and customs and three additional hours of relentless curves and holes in the road. The nightContinue reading “JAMAICA”

SEE

I stood in the aisle trying to find a card that matched my husband or my dad for Father’s Day. The cards either had a grill or a golf club. The one card I did pick up and read pitted the poor recipient as the butt of the joke. It said something like “The thingContinue reading “SEE”

FREE

I learned a swift lesson about the freedom we enjoy in this nation the day we picked up a Cuban refugee family from the airport. Reading about the perils faced by those living in restricted nations does not compare with beholding their relief upon their first taste of freedom. There he sat, staring at the bleakContinue reading “FREE”

ARMY

When I took a pregnancy test in May of 2005, I was sure the double pink line was faulty. The first person I called was the 1-800 number on the back of the EPT box. ‘Uhm…so there is kinda a really light pink double line. What does that mean?’ ‘You have indicated a positive result.’Continue reading “ARMY”

TICKLED

My mother’s side of the family is inflicted with a terrible condition. We get tickled and laugh uncontrollably at desperately inappropriate times. We’ve suffered long and hard with the affliction, to no avail of the torment. We are a family who has spent more hours in the pews of churches than I care to count.Continue reading “TICKLED”

INDEED!

Today was such an odd Easter for me. I LOVE holidays. I don’t want to say I live for a special occasion, but I kinda do. And Easter. WELL. As a follower of Christ, there is NO BETTER DAY! Victory!! Triumph!! Death is defeated!!! THIS DAY! A welling up in my spirit happens every Easter and thereContinue reading “INDEED!”

GROWING

Michael and I were sitting on the couch having a conversation. All the kids were home. And we were having a conversation. Zachary was in the room with us. All of a sudden we heard from downstairs, “Moooooooooooooom!!!!!! Someone clogged the toilet with SOOOOOO MUCH toilet paper!!” Zachary stopped what he was doing, looked intently atContinue reading “GROWING”

CAPTIVE

I sat in the cold, stone room for what seemed like ages anticipating their arrival. Curiosity and nerves were competing for first place in my typical over-emotional state. Being a ‘feeler’ can be exhausting. It’s difficult to explain what a typical daily emotional roller coaster a ‘feeler’ must ride. I can go from crying tearsContinue reading “CAPTIVE”