A good, long novel … Swimming laps … Freckles popping up on my nose … Drinks on the porch … Lazy, slow, weekend afternoons … The smell of freshly mowed grass … Lighting bugs … (first spotting last night!) Lush, sweet-smelling flowers … Working up a (good) sweat … Sun on my face … The […]

I was listening to Kate Bowler interview the great theologian NT Wright here. Wright said something that took my breath away. He said that when he teaches pastors he tells them something like, "When you look out at all the faces in your congregation remember that behind every face is a secret sorrow." Behind every […]

Faith deconstruction seems like a natural by-product of life. The faith of our childhood, our young adulthood, should morph, change, and become more mature. If I still have the faith of an 18-year old at age 58, something went seriously wrong. Over three years ago I left a church I loved and was a part […]

Wake up and roll out of bed … Hug the husband, Start the coffee, Make the bed, Water the garden, Empty the dishwasher, Take out the trash, Scrabble together some lunch. Morning chores … mundane, monotonous; the ordinary stuff of our ordinary days. Necessary jobs using up (wasting?) our precious time. The boring by-products of […]

I have been doing dip manicures for over a year now. If you don't know what a dip manicure is here is how the Cleveland Clinic defines it: "a popular manicure technique where your natural or artificial nails are brushed with a resin/glue base and dipped into a finely milled colored powder. The process is […]

I have been reposting older content lately. I like going back and reading my own posts. They make me smile and they make me think and I hope they do one or the other for you, too. If they do both, all the better! But I am committed to a bit of a new thing: […]