A few weeks ago, a friend and I who live a state apart, decided to meet each other halfway for a day. It turns out that halfway landed us in my former backyard, where my husband and I grew up in Pennsylvania. While I drive home often to visit family, I rarely have the chance to get out and about on ... Read More about A Trip Down Memory Lane
Mothers: Making Summers Count, One Snapshot at a Time
I count summers now. I didn't begin counting them until I survived all the summers that involved me and at least one child of potty-training age, but now that I have a kid in high school with two others on her heels, I hover over the number as it grows smaller. I have three summers left with all ... Read More about Mothers: Making Summers Count, One Snapshot at a Time
The Story of Us
Most of you have already moved on from Memorial Day weekend, but I'm still recovering. My husband and I spent hours upon hours in the garden--planting, moving, watering, lamenting the fact that one of us believes holiday weekends are for work and the other of us has the gall to believe they're for ... Read More about The Story of Us
Open Doors and Opportunity
When it comes to decision-making, my husband and I have always taken the approach that if a door opens in the direction of our desires, we will walk through it. We pray about it first, but if we don't feel any specific leading one way or another, through the door we walk, or run depending on how ... Read More about Open Doors and Opportunity
More Than One Place
I ran long before church yesterday. I needed a little time in my own sanctuary, the one of leaf and bark and sweat before the one of big screens and loud music. I miss Switzerland the most during the spring and fall, when the natural world became a cathedral all its own. On my last run in the ... Read More about More Than One Place
Giving Each Other the Gift of Curiosity
my unofficial office--post-run:) Five days a week I wake up, drink a cup of tea, pray a little, and then lace up my running shoes. I have a love/hate relationship with running, as in I love to hate it. But, it's become an integral part of my life, a piece of the puzzle that holds all of me ... Read More about Giving Each Other the Gift of Curiosity
