Sure as Mother’s Day
Some things in life are sure things. Like Mother’s Day. I don’t know when the day was set aside to honor our mothers but I know it has been around ever since my mother labored with me for hours on August 2, 1959. At 5:40 P.M. at Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, Ohio all 9 pounds […]
No Narrow Mercies
Leslie Leyland Fields is a direct and quick answer to my specific prayer this time last spring. I was stuck. I felt a strong call to write more than a blog but I needed help. Miraculously, I found Leslie. Since then, I’ve read her books and columns, spent a week on her Alaskan fish camp island improving my writing skills, and am still learning […]
Opossums, Voles, and Easter Bunnies
Tuesday after Easter. Just another day. But I have resurrection from the dead and salvation on my mind, more than on a usual day. You know the after-effects of post-holiday, when life settles down to normal, whatever “normal” is? And I can’t get that tiny creature held in my hand on Easter Sunday out of […]
Ashes
Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down . . . We sang it for fun, way back when I was young. Didn’t know the meaning. Still don’t. Urban legend says it’s about people dying horrible deaths during the Black Plague that swept through Europe long ago. But […]