Posted in Church Year, Raising kids on Jan 6th, 2012
In the Epiphany chapter of my book, I wrote, “My teddy bear still sits on my bed during the day.” I told how I had gotten Teddy when I was two, how I had slept with this patchily fuzzy bear nearly every night of my life. I told how Teddy came to grade-school sleepovers with [...]
Posted in Church Year, Gratitude on Dec 23rd, 2011
A friend tells me her girls have decided not to give or receive Christmas presents this year. “They want to take the money we planned to spend on gifts for each other and use it to help people who really need it,” she says. So one afternoon, they pored over catalogs from Compassion Intenational and [...]
Posted in Church Year on Dec 20th, 2011
Last year on the solstice, as soon as daylight dawned, my friend Charlie called. The darkness had weighed heavily upon us both last fall, and we’d been counting down the days till the return of the light. “We made it,” he said. “180 days of pure joy lie before us.” I smiled into the phone. [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
