I haven’t been able to write lately. I think it’s partially because parenting three teen/tween daughters has humbled me into a place of silence on many issues. The world is so dark and heavy, and I’m unsure how to process or respond to that in helpful ways. And then we also recently moved, which is…
The lights in our house are driving me crazy. Some fixtures will work one day, quit working the next day, and then start working again out of nowhere. This week there’s no rhyme or reason as to why two out of three lights in our bathroom vanity fixture have gone out. I’ve tried new bulbs,…
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 a tree problem this year. After much debate about where to get one and how large it should be, we set up a live tree in the front room of our house. It leans a little and sheds a lot, but it smells divine and has a fullness to it that makes up…