Spring rains and soft pillows

Spring rains and soft pillows

“How was your trip?” This question, asked casually in passing, is next to impossible for me to answer. I typically go blank, not knowing how or where to start. Is there one word that sums up everything? Is there time to go into detail? Should I commit five hundred...
As sure as sunrise!

As sure as sunrise!

Promises! How reassuring! How exciting! How intriguing! A promise between a man and a woman at a church altar can be heart melting, tears producing, joy inspiring. The promise of a certain birthday gift or Christmas gift or graduation gift can be powerfully...
Mirror, mirror .  .  .

Mirror, mirror .  .  .

I think we’ve missed the point. In days of yore, parents would bring their newborns home from the hospital – in pink for girls, in blue for boys. They had to look the part. In school, whatever was the latest trend in clothing, in accessories, in hair styles, that was...
Of firehoses and such

Of firehoses and such

Do you know that feeling following a happy time at table with friends and/or family? That feeling that, as you were laughing and talking and enjoying all the funny stories and catching up stuff? Yeah, that feeling. The groaning realization that you ate too much? The...
Only 12! Can you imagine?

Only 12! Can you imagine?

While the goal was ‘getting to the conference,’ what was in abundance with every mile, every turn, was God’s handprint. The greenery, the vistas, the crazy climbs to mountain peaks followed by equally crazy descents into valleys. Plenty of rivers accompanied us as we...