Suprise Me

So I am thinking…   I need to look at everything in this house that holds 31 years of marriage and two grown children’s archives, and ask this 51 year old almost single self what do you need? Which books of 5 full book cases do you have to have near you? Which wall hanging/photos… Read More

On this particular November Friday, we were sitting in home ec class learning how to make salad dressing. Read More

I hope the preschoolers we taught remember that charity begins in our hearts and in the way we treat one another. Read More

I loved being a Girl Scout, and I appreciated Girl Scouts even more when I became a troop leader. Read More

I never actually saw the moon landing on television until long after it happened. On July 20, 1969, my husband and I were on what turned out to be a once-in-a-lifetime, eight-week trip to Europe, Greece, and Israel. We had a vague notion that American astronauts had walked on the moon by looking at photos… Read More

…the waves reaching up the beach and pulling my sleeping bag with me in it out to sea. Read More

Miss Burdett, you’ve changed the color of your lipstick! Read More

We went to Paris and Israel in 1984, the year our son turned thirteen. It was a wonderful trip marred by a few unforeseen catastrophes, the greatest of which was almost losing his little sister. Our daughters were ten and seven, and it was our youngest who gave me one of the most frightening close… Read More

Although I don’t look forward to going to the dentist, I do appreciate the importance of the work–maybe because I have always had dental issues, from cavities to crowns, partial plates and bridges to implants, orthodontia to tooth extraction.  Much of it is thanks to genetics, which forgot to provide me a full secondary set… Read More

Awaken to the Dream Long before we are birthed to this life, to these bodies,  someone dreams us into existence. These ethereal threads that are woven throughout our life hold the patterns,  warp and weave of the holy meaning to our days and nights. When the sacred spinning, the endless calling that  finally finds voice… Read More