i who have died

We just returned from a week at the beach. The vacation (though anyone who has or has ever had nineteen month old children knows that a “vacation” at this stage of the game is really more like a “relocation”) started with food poisoning, which I think we’ve traced...

Ponder Anew

Yesterday I attended Beau and Sarah’s wedding. I cried when my friend Linsey sang, “Praise to the Lord,” replete with key change (always gets me). Not only is her voice incredibly beautiful, but when Lins sings—especially when she sang yesterday—you know you are...

A Few Words

When I read, I always have a pencil shoved into my book. For some reason, I can’t help but underline sentences and passages that speak to me. Sometimes I just like the way an author puts words together. Sometimes the truth contained is pivotal and new. So I...

Namaste Interrupted

After having breakfast with some of our very favorite people yesterday morning – the Jungs, who went and moved away on us and left us all high and dry – I thought I might write a post about things that are good for my soul because seeing the Jungs is always good for...

projects and the art of participating

I’ve just started Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun, a summer gift from my mom who has fallen in love all over again after reading it for the second time. I’ve never been to this area of Italy. The only Italy I’ve seen is Sicily. Steve and I took a military rotator...