Month: July 2024
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Above and Beyond
Every Friday night, before we sing on Saturday, I text the nursing home activities director,“Are we still good for tomorrow?” She usually answers with a thumb’s up emoji, but one week she sent the message,“Please lead the residents in patriotic music, around the flagpole out front, for Armed Forces Day.” My wife and I eagerly…
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The Promise of Rain
The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. Isaiah 35:7a (NKJV) Summers are hot and muggy, here in the South-Central U.S., and the creeks, which are not spring fed, start to dry up without regular rain. This time of year, most days are copy-and-paste: windy and warm with nothing…
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A Little Way Through Small Days
Fellow blogger, Deb Farris, had me nodding my head recently with her post, The Little Way Through: One Writer’s Morning. She’d gone out to the front porch swing, accompanied by her loyal Goldendoodle, to reflect and write. But her anticipated time of deep work was repeatedly interrupted by lawn mowers and leaf blowers and workers…
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Three Rocks. One Story.
The first rock made its way to my bookshelf in 2011. Anthony, one of my students, found it while walking to school and brought it to me. It’s an ordinary looking grey stone, worn smooth from years of weather, about the size of those chocolate eggs you see at Easter. But it meant something special to…
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Waiting for Ice Cream
My fondest childhood Fourth of July memories involve spending the holiday making homemade ice cream at my grandparent’s farm. Starting mid-morning, my aunts, uncles, and cousins arrived, with the crunch of tires on the gravel driveway, and every family brought an ice cream freezer. For those who are not familiar, making homemade ice cream means…
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