Little Friend gave me a birthday present this morning as she wandered out of her bedroom, footsteps still dragging in the sands of sleep and tousled hair stuck to eye…
Tag: <span>family</span>
I began 2011 with a vision for the year: The Year of the Cup. I imagined the twelve months before me as empty vessels to be filled with God’s trademark…
Little Friend went to the doctor today and was diagnosed with “Christmas Fever.” It sounds technical, right? Not quite the ear infection that I had imagined after the past week…
Sometimes failure looks like a messy house. Failure leers at me from the kitchen sink where dishes multiply with the voracity of an alley-full of un-spayed cats. Failure jeers at…
What does one do when one returns to Pittsburgh from a beach Thanksgiving to find a grey-shrouded, mist-breathing Midwinter has settled on her heavy haunches to brood until spring hatches?…
I’m grateful: 1. For a little girl with hair that spouts like a whale’s sneeze. 2. For a pastured turkey that glazed succulent and delicious after 12 hours in a…