“Ruffled feathers and endless squawking over a minor difficulty is typical of a crow’s life. I lean back on the counter and realize that could be my line….”
Retirement. It is disorienting. This much I will admit. Jesus tried using this same technique with his followers, continually provoking disorientation, in order to widen their narrow views on life. And can we all agree it was a fatal mission? Which makes me think God might be back to Her old tricks. Applying the same […]
“Compared to everything else going on in the house, my cousin drinking chocolate milk in the shower almost seemed ordinary.” Cassie Beasley There is no one crazier than the cousins on your mother’s side. Right? That might be why it took us decades to organize a simple reunion with my sister Nancy and Auntie Jean’s […]
“I live two blocks from where I grew up” Flamingo Drive was actually a spacious culdesac formed by a semi-circle of unique houses, built in the fifties, landscaped with birds of paradise, red bottle-brush bushes, and roses. Giant magnolia, pine, and palm trees shaded the yards. As if fringe on a blanket the cement driveways […]
“Sometimes it’s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.” Richelle Mead Opening my suitcase on the tranquil tile floor of the bathroom, the dust of my recent journey floats in the frigid morning air. I breathe in every gritty detail, rifling through the stories that are bound to be […]
Living in the Gap 