A Little Bit of Water
Sometimes, we just need a little bit of water. On one such occasion, my family of four, along with Rufus
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What One Giant, Costco-Sized Bear Taught Me About the Push and Pull of Life
I teared up in the donation parking lot the other day. Getting teary-eyed when I unload a trunk full of
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Love at Drop-Offs and in the Upper Room
There’s a tradition, or I suppose I should call it a rule, in my family: Everyone has to say “I love
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Grace in the Garden
A couple of months after the pandemic started, I drove a couple of miles down Fruitvale Avenue, determined to purchase
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It’s Okay to Feel Sad
On election night, my family of four positioned ourselves in front of the television. Bowls of chili, loaded with all
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Finding God on the Mountain and in the Valley
There are certain rhythms of the liturgical year I can often feel like I’m learning for the very first time.
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Remembering the When. Celebrating the Now.
On my wedding anniversary, I found myself browsing through old photo albums on Facebook.
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When Hope is a Discipline, Everything Changes
We started to hear rumblings of a teachers’ strike just a couple of days before it happened.
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Lent
Shouldering Our Way through Good Friday
Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.
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Advent finally showed up
Advent came a little later than expected this year.
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