In my twenties, I worked at a pediatric long-term care facility where we cared for kids whose medical problems were stable enough to keep them out of the hospital, but too severe for care at home. Often, these kids suffered from illnesses brought on by the abuse or negligence of their parents, and even more frequently their birth parents weren’t…
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My mother says it started with three-year-old me crying over imaginary spiders. Years later, it progressed to double-checking the lock on the door more than once before leap-frogging across the empty floor space into bed at night. I then pulled the blankets up high and tight, until they rested just under my chin. I kept a pile of them at…
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I wrote last week about holding patterns, and a friend asked if we had considered moving again. Alas, as much as I would love to spend another few years living a fantasy life in Europe, that chapter of our lives is well and truly finished. We are here for the long haul. We are holding. Extended family now holds space…
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I generally assess the success of a vacation based on how many books I finish. In April, I managed to knock out a few on my TBR list, although this list grows longer by the day. My mother-in-law gave me a nice chunk of cash in the form of bookstore gift cards for my birthday, so I went bananas. I…
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“I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” ~ Psalm 27:13 We sat in the same cramped seats we’d been in for eight hours when the message came over the speakers. A delay on the runway would keep us circling the airport for a “short period of time”, would…
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