I didn’t intend to take a 9 day break from this space. It just sort of… happened. I recently had cause to repeat a line…
At the Year’s End
Today, I will pack up the Christmas decorations and return the house to its normal, less-festive but more practical state. I suspect as well that…
The Year We Lost?
I was stumbling through my Apple News– a habit of which I am happy to say that 2020 has essentially broken me– looking for a specific…
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Does anyone else ever forget that we are not entitled to a tidy Christmas season? Does anyone else sometimes find themselves in the midst of…
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum
Six years ago, in the wee hours, my phone rang. I was bleary from 27 hours of travel, and barely able to discern where I…
The Week Before
Thanksgiving is in a week, and we do not have a turkey. We do not have a turkey because we have no room for a…
His Covenant of Peace
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace…
A Beanie for Benji
With all the chatter in this space about both babies and knitting, it must be time for another post about both.
God Bless America
We’re studying American history this year. I decided in the spring we would cover it all— even before the sparring over Constitutional rights and protests…
Forty-six
I turned 46 over the weekend. I remember when 46 was old, impossibly far away in a future I couldn’t yet see clearly. And now…