Today marks our fifteenth wedding anniversary. The weather outside looks and feels strangely similar to what it was like on June 18, 2005 — partly sunny and unseasonably cool for mid-June in the South. When I look back at pictures I can remember a number of little details about that day, things like the smell…
I sat on our back porch last night trying to figure out how to write a blog post as if it was the first time I’d ever done so. Written words don’t come easily these days. Plenty is happening in the world around us, but I don’t often write about newsworthy or current events. I…
I sat alone in my car in a Panera parking lot with a cup of warm potato soup today. The familiarity of that place (a parking lot near my children’s school) and that lunch (a favorite on dreary days) made me almost feel normal. But life is still anything but normal. I was in that…
We have hit some new lows in our home lately. This past week was our most challenging one since the quarantine began some six weeks ago. Our troubles mostly center around peacefully co-existing and doing our distance learning {which is similar to but more guided than homeschooling}. At one low point on Friday my youngest…