Monthly Archives: April 2020

One of my students used to bring a homemade, chocolate chip cookie to school in his lunch box every day. A shy, happy smile would spread across his face whenever anyone asked if his mom had made his cookies. She had. He LOVED his mom. And everyday at lunchtime when he pulled that chocolate chipContinue reading “Love You, Miss You, See You Soon”

On Easter morning, my husband carefully removed a cardboard box from the mailbox. He looked at me, eyes wide. “It says, ‘Open Immediately’,” he stated. My heart sank. The caterpillars. We realized while the boys were busy hunting down eggs in the yard that we hadn’t checked the mail the day before. The caterpillars weContinue reading “Casts and Caterpillars”

*This was originally written as a Facebook post on 3/14/20. I’ve made slight edits and wanted to share it in this space as well. “Mama, can we do Grammie words?” my seven-year-old son asked as I pulled down the chain on his bedside lamp on Wednesday night. “Not tonight. Remind me tomorrow.” And he didContinue reading “Grammie Words”

One morning during the summer of 2001, a list quietly appeared on the side of the refrigerator in my parents’ kitchen. The handwriting was the same as that on the dubbed Disney cassettes, home movie VHS tapes, and grandchildren’s names on scraps of paper carefully scotch-taped to sets of birth year coins. My grandfather hadContinue reading “On Reverence and Being the Church”