“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on

My many houseguests are gone and E has returned to work. This Monday morning I am at a loss. Some elements of the routine are the same. Wake, shower, dress, make coffee. Never forget the coffee. But I trail off at the coffee… I make mine and E’s but I don’t need to go make [...]

1948 to 2009

My dad, my kids’ Poppy, passed away July 8, 2009. For a home so full of preschoolers, our farmhouse now has a strange undercurrent of silence beneath the rambunctiousness. Dad needed me so much in the last two months that I now feel at a loss without him to tend. Although he had a terminal [...]