my best Christmas

My family took a bunch of slides when I was growing up. If we were taking pictures, we were developing them as slides. That was the way to do it. We could always make a print later if we wanted … Continue reading

“Will you hold Him for a minute?”

At our house, “the baby” gets held. The baby gets held because that’s what you do. The baby gets held because, like all our children, she’s a treasure…and we want to. We want to hold her. Sometimes, though, we have … Continue reading

two long days

I haven’t finished my Christmas shopping yet. This fact got me thinking a little bit about time this morning. It’s 5:05 in the morning. See…I’m obsessing over time already. I have two days until Christmas.  Two days is supposedly 48 … Continue reading

a little man

I’ve been listening to a course on Philosophy lately while I deliver the mail. I don’t get it.  It’s all these puzzles and tricky words and it makes my head spin. That’s not a good thing while I’m delivering the … Continue reading

coming for the lemonade

Back in the day when you stood for hours in a video rental store, picking up tape after tape, reading the backs of the boxes to try and find something that the whole family…the family that was smaller in age and … Continue reading

all the words

OK, so here’s a weird hypothetical situation I was thinking about this morning. A “what if” that I can fill up a page writing about. A hail mary blog topic that might get me inspired enough to make my 500 … Continue reading

touch the hem

I have an audio version of the Bible that I’ve started listening to again as I deliver mail. I go through spurts…I’ll listen to some self-help courses, listen to some novels on tape, listen to the radio and all the … Continue reading

it was 20 years ago today…

that I stood at the front of an old Episcopal church in Asheville, NC and watched Jenny walk down the aisle in a beautiful white dress. Today’s the day we got married. Twenty years ago today. Now we sleep with … Continue reading

house like a miracle

I made an “obtuse” comment…I seem to like obtuse comments…to a friend once about a “house like a miracle”. I think that she thought I was talking about the house that we live in….and I just let it go. I … Continue reading

acorn

I was thinking about a post I wrote a couple of days ago where I mentioned that our new baby, Sparrow, was already a “person”. In spite of her “newness”, she already is a big part of the way towards … Continue reading