The memory popped up in my FB feed: two years ago this month, the world began shutting down.
The Good Old Days
The light was brilliant this afternoon, as it often is this time of year. I am a sucker for good light, so even though there was…
‘Tis So Sweet
It was two weeks of lessons. Two weeks of hustling everyone (and by everyone, I mean Alice, too) out the door at 10:45 a.m. each…
Priority Tetris
It’s funny how a disruption to routine, well… disrupts your routine. For several years now, I’ve blogged in the wee morning hours, in relative quiet,…
Something Like Summer
I know it’s not really summer yet, but it feels like it.
Cold and Warm and Back Again
Someone recently shared that they felt the temperatures in East Tennessee was something like Powerball: just random numbers thrown out in no particular order. And it’s…
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…
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…