Every city around us has closed its schools; some for a month, most for six weeks. We are expected to hear, this afternoon, my daughter’s public school will also be shutting down. Ballet has stopped. Youth group suspended. Even churches on Sundays are streaming instead of hosting a building full of people. Yesterday, Washington State’s Governor, […]
My two-year-old was puking all over me the other evening. The initial scare was a little unnerving, especially since the first case ever of Coronavirus in the U.S. was in my hometown, the one I grew up in and live close to now. Then, as the epidemic spread, I will admit, it was a little startling. […]
3-2-1…I just push the button on our brand new washing-machine, spinning yet another load of dark towels filled with vomit and feces. The world is far from “normal”, here in Washington State. “Coronavirus” has stolen the limelight of information…from schools, to churches, national news, to businesses and corporations. A friend who works for corporate Starbucks was […]
The whole world is looking at Washington. My hometown, just twenty-minutes south from where I live, sparking the very first U.S. case of an epidemic now on everyone’s radar. As of six minutes ago, five deaths were reported in Washington State. Four minutes ago, the number rose to six. Grocery stores are cleared out of hand […]
It was a whisper of a prayer, the kind my daughter didn’t even hear, as I packed babies on hips and trudged my way, grudgingly into the grocery story again, on Monday. It’s the same store I met the ninety-one year-old who taught me about marriage, saw a scarred woman, a blind man and first met my homeless […]
I see you. There, on the other side of the world. Your hands tremble. Your heart aches for all you hold. “Do others see us?” You must ask. “Are they blind? Are we irrelevant?” You sit in a secret prison, aching for the freedom to just send a message and not be blocked. You hold a […]