It really astounds me how loyal dogs are. How we can usher them into a crate for hours while we go to work or go have fun, and they'll still be there, waiting. Wagging their tails as we enter through the door once again, smiling as we shower them with pets and love and kisses... Continue Reading →
I've always had the innate sense that motherhood is hard. Maybe it was seeing how hard my own mother worked to take care of my little brother and me. Maybe it was playing mother hen to thirty-something band kids as a drum major back in high school. Maybe it was my own fears of one... Continue Reading →
(a response piece to Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay") My day was starting whenever the famous line fluttered around my head: "dawn goes down to day / nothing gold can stay." And in the flash of an instant, I realized this valuable lesson: day will always give to dusk, and dusk will always give... Continue Reading →
22 things I have learned in my life thus far: 1. Life is beautiful. 2. Life is ugly. 3. Family is important, so cherish it. 4. Take care of yourself--eat well, exercise, get some needed rest. For when you cover the basics, you'd be surprised at how great you will feel and how much you... Continue Reading →
Can I give you an outsider's view? I just happened to look up at the right moment, as I always do-- and there they were. A young man squatted down on one side of the wooden table, facing an older man sitting down on the other side. I'm sure no one else took notice. Sure... Continue Reading →
is something I aim to be, but often am not. It's the difference between lounging in my sun-lit room in the evening and the day of work when chaos and anxiety reigned in my bones. And I hate-- absolutely deplore, really-- the fact that calm recedes like the waning tide and my stress comes out... Continue Reading →
Maybe I give, and I give, and I give until I have nothing to give away . . . and maybe that makes me a great person to others and a bad person to myself, but I can't help the satisfaction of feeling needed, of giving so I can make the lives of others easier.... Continue Reading →
Words and music notes. That's who I am yet there is deafening sil- . A bundle of chords and emotions, knots of words and thoughts ending in a long pause . . . at rest. Ironic that they make me feel weary, not well-rested. If you could read my mind, would you flee? If you... Continue Reading →
Was anyone ever going to tell me that love was messy? For the better part of my life, I thought love was a guaranteed Cinderella fantasy, complete with a Prince Charming dressed handsomely in a black tux who cries as he watches you walk down the aisle on the very day you have dreamed of... Continue Reading →
He is the sunshine of my day. He wakes me up and watches over me at night. His faithful love protects me always. He stirs the Holy Spirit within me. He keeps me safe though a 1,000 fall on one side and 10,000 on the other. His righteousness watches over me. He knit me in... Continue Reading →
