Before Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
Toddlers to Teens January 18, 2016
We decorate the living room, twinkle-lights strung across the ceiling from one corner to the other. Mechanically, we lift the…
Saved
Toddlers to Teens January 15, 2016
“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”…
Blackbird
Toddlers to Teens January 8, 2016
Grocery store, aisle one. One child, white-knuckled, gripping the edge of the metal shopping cart. One child, standing up, fingers…
Fireflies
Toddlers to Teens January 1, 2016
as my children returned, carrying mason jars of fireflies that glowed through the dark lane then upward the wraparound porch, I pondered to the silt-caked oak flooring that…