Hello, friends! It’s summertime…a special time of year. Does it feel like it where you live? After a June mostly in the 80s—sometimes even 70s—summer came with a vengeance for us, with one day reaching around 117 in our area. We survived thanks to our three window unit air conditioners (which kept the […]
ACFW, Genesis Contest, Summer
It’s raining as I write this, pattering gently down outside the darkened windows of my parents’ white farmhouse-style home. I’m in their cozy guest room upstairs, the one with quilt-covered bed and fireplace and the little antique desk where I’ve done much writing. Though I no longer live in this place, it’s been […]
Fall like the Rain, mercy, rain
I kept trying to ignore the gentle nudge. I sat outside the building where our classes meet, under the big oak tree at the picnic table that seems built for first graders, though our high school students often have lunch there. Purple pen in hand, I was trying to annotate my way through […]
Well, last week I blogged about To-Do List Craziness. And apparently what happens when I let my to-do list get too crazy is: I get sick. Sometimes I think the Lord lets me get sick just so I’ll slow down a bit. Does that ever happen to you? Thankfully—one of the […]
