There it was. We barely even opened up the page of what to do in Seattle, and we see it… A glass studio by the world famous artist. “Chihuly”. I had heard of him, who hasn’t? My husband’s best friend almost went to his school to study, but it was $20,000. Great gifts, unique talents, skilled […]
She’s obsessed with super-heroes. Always has been. Superman, Batman, Wonder-woman, Flash. It’s Saturday morning. The reports of a local, Burlington shooter, echoes in my mind. “He’s still loose.” They say. She wakes, I turn on Twitter, off the briefing. Letting her be a child…as long as grace will keep her. After all, who wants to go […]
Stinging burns through my inner arm. A towel dabs the scraps after our family has been working. The pain rings loud. Bright, shining, red, like becoming scars. And I can’t believe it’s been seven years since we pulled out the ladder, made our way up and chopped off the dangling embers, letting light greet us. […]
It’s been happening lately. I have been scanning Facebook or Instagram early in the morning. While the house sits like an anchor against the wind outside, and I tuck tight my legs, place my neck carefully against the warm blankets that have kept me safe all night… There, I scroll social media. Yet, there were days […]
“Get your hands off the exhibit.” She snaps at my daughter. We hadn’t even been there two minutes. A holiday. Thinking, they’d be empty. Little did we know, a whole bunch of well-dressed, grey haired people had found this small, local art exhibit. The perfect place to go on a dreary Monday…or so I thought. And I’ll […]
It popped up as one of those sponsored posts from a well-known writer. We had like “friends”, and she had a big following… And I had forgotten… Each of us are broken, just in different measures. She had wrestled with suffering too, like most do. But then, I read the conclusion of this ex-missionary,”God doesn’t want […]