Take off your shoes
Left or right, Dad? Left. Up or down? Down. The ornaments were laid out on the tray table in front of my father. As I picked each one up, I’d ask him where we should put it. This is the first tree my dad and I have decorated together in at least 25 years. I
It’s clearly basketball season for Saul
Saul is a college basketball coach. He came home from practice the other night, and as usual, called out, “Hellooooo!” as he opened the door. As usual, he dropped his work stuff on the floor and headed straight to the kitchen. After he got some food in his belly, he returned to the couch, as
Please don’t call me busy
Please don’t call me busy. Busy means I don’t have time to talk on the phone. Busy means I can’t come to your house for coffee. Busy means there are more important things in life than you. And that’s simply not true. If I tell you I’m too busy, it means I’ve done a bad
Kindness reroutes a bad day
Have you ever had a MONDAY that lasted all day? I had one a few weeks ago and it wasn’t pretty. I woke up crabby. I took my son to school crabby. I went to Pickleball crabby. Then the crabby turned to sad. I ate cookies sad. I read a book sad. I took a
Maybe you’re not lost
Being lost is such a scary feeling. I remember being lost in the hilly one-way streets of Athens, Ohio a few days after we had moved to town. The panic started to rise in my throat until it reached my eyes and flowed out as tears. I pulled over and called my husband at work.
I need a Year of Jubilee
I need a Year of Jubilee. How about you? What is a Year of Jubilee, you ask? Think of a Mardi Gras celebration that covers the entire nation for an entire year. Now take away the sex, booze, and parades. Add in a whole lot of forgiveness. That’s the Year of Jubilee. In the Old
Getting what we want
I can remember my anger like it was yesterday. It happened 29 years ago, and yet I can still see myself yelling, stomping and slamming a bedroom door. I was a junior in high school and a boy invited me to visit him at his college two hours from our hometown. We weren’t dating. We
