Congratulations to Joe M and Jen V for winning the give away for Andrea Palpant Dilley’s memoir Faith and Other Flat Tires, searching for God on the rough road of doubt. We got home from Chicago last night, A.K.A. our first vacation with the kids that didn’t involve visiting family or friends. Uh…yeah. The kids […]
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Memorial Day Tribute
My grandfather served in both World War II and the Korean War. He never talked much about either war. But when I was in college, I wrote to him asking for family stories. I was surprised when he sent a letter that included a couple paragraphs about surviving a typhoon while on a navy ship […]
We Remember
Every Memorial Day weekend, I pull out this story that my Grandma wrote in a letter to me while I was in college. I was taking a story telling class at the time and had written my grandparents asking them to send me family stories. This one is a gem, and serves as a reminder […]
Growing Story-lovers
If you haven’t done so already, remember to enter the drawing to win a copy of “Do These Jeans Make Me Look Fat? Breaking the Cultural Mirror.” I recently read about a woman who said that upon taking a course in ancient Greek she discovered that the word logos, most often translated into English as […]
Staying Steady: Housework
I never struggled with housework until I had kids. As someone once told me, “It’s not that I mind doing housework. I just mind doing it over, and over, and over, and over….” Housework is one of the most challenging jobs for me because the sense of completion lasts for such a short length of […]
Unlikely Motherhood
I confess, I was never the girl who dreamed about having babies. I didn’t have names picked out when I was a twelve, nor did I imagine a day I’d have a houseful of kids. I wasn’t around many babies in my childhood, and I didn’t babysit much in adolescence. The rare times I did […]