Nose tracks. My front windows are covered with nose tracks – dog-height smudges and smears made up of dried slobber and snot. At this moment, two of our dogs are busy creating more. They’re seated in front of my office window, gazing out at the street. The dogs are waiting for something – anything – [...]

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A fish jumped out of the water behind me, right next to the shore. The splash broke the stillness of the lake. I leaned back in the Adirondack chair on the dock and tried to get back to breathing. I’m not very good at relaxing. No. Let’s get real here: I suck at relaxing. I’m [...]

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Like I said the other day, I’ve been reading the book of Job in the Bible. And like every time I reread something from God’s word, I’m getting something different out of it. This time, my focus is on how Job and his friends all try to answer the question WHY when tragedy strikes. On [...]

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Well, the first week of school has come and gone. LC, Hannah, and Abby each survived being “the new kid.” And they all made some friends and got used to their new schools. And me? I spent five glorious days at home in a silent house. Did I clean? No. But I did catch up [...]

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Charlie and I talk a lot about seasons of life. It probably comes from the age we’re at. We have enough life experience to look back and see the seasons that came before this one. Those times when it felt like things would never change, like when the kids were little. I never thought I’d [...]

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Waiting. I hate it. I hope you had a lovely Christmas. Ours was full of unwrapping and eating and extricating toys from human-proof packaging and playing on the Xbox and eating and Facetime talking with my parents and sister and family. And eating. I also spent most of the day waiting. Every weather forecast for [...]

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