Questions Die Away
I remember, a year ago, how uncertain I felt when I wrote my New Year's Eve post on my blog. I was in one of those dark periods of life,…
I remember, a year ago, how uncertain I felt when I wrote my New Year's Eve post on my blog. I was in one of those dark periods of life,…
I'm trying, I really am, but sometimes my efforts feel as broken as the candy-cane from Canada that I just stuck in my coffee to make it feel like Christmas.…
The first Christmas didn’t actually happen in Juniata County, and it wasn’t white. This thought just dawned on me a few minutes ago as I watched the sunset behind the…
Last week, one night, I lay in bed, in exhaustion, and listened with my eyes closed to the song "How Beautiful", by Twila Paris. How beautiful the hands that served…
I don't like to think that I'm a germ freak or a clean fanatic or anything. I like to think that I'm pretty flexible and easygoing. I don't like to…
I just got done baking cookies. I don't think they turned out very well, but it is possible that certain people may choke them down and say they are good…
This morning finds me a little happier, a little more at home here in the apartment in Bangladesh where I quarantine—a little less jetlagged, a little more like I might…
Right now I have few words--just a stillness as I arise into the sunset, above the tinted pink clouds… I have come though a rapid night and a rapid day.…
This evening before supper I had a fun experience, the kind of fun I don't have every day. My friend Judith, who is back at our place again since school…
I searched frantically for a place to pull over, finally drawing my car into a church parking lot. I went up the hill, up into the graveyard, and perched on…