Have you ever had an experience in your past that suddenly took on a different meaning and significance from what you had always thought? Maybe you found out a memory you had was not truly what it seemed to be at the time? When I was growing up, I attended a school mainly for missionary kids Continue Reading
Flawed Premises
I recently returned from an amazing trip. I’m tempted to call it a trip of a life-time, but who knows… I might do it again. I drove solo across the country to Washington State, to take a car to my daughter. The land I passed through was beautiful in so many different ways – lush, barren, Continue Reading
But I don’t waant to!
Why does starting something seem so hard? On the way to sitting down to write this, I made myself a cup of tea, ate some chocolate, a couple of nuts and a piece of apple (which involved washing, cutting, and putting away the rest), cleaned out a window sill, struggling with opening the Continue Reading
Of Life, Death & Peacock Feathers
As I look out my living room window, I see what look like green puffballs on the branches of the maple tree in front of my apartment… little signs of regeneration after the bareness of winter. My mom was looking forward to spring, and getting to sit outside in the sunshine, after feeling cooped Continue Reading