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During The Great Depression the U.S. Government commissioned photographers to travel the country, chronicling the human element of how The Crash impacted the different regions. Dorothea Lange and a few others spent a good deal of time in the Dust Bowl region (Oklahoma, Texas,… Continue Reading “Dorothea Lange, The Dust Bowl, and Taking Notice of History”
Hey, Everybody! I have the honor of blogging over at the Breathe Christian Writers Conference blog today. Here’s a teaser of my post. Click over to their site to read the rest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The other day I transferred a plant from a small pot… Continue Reading “Room to Grow”
A few years ago I went to an antique store with my mom. She likes to look through the beautiful dishes and wall hangings and such. I find the nooks where the boxes of old family pictures are. There’s something sad about sorting through… Continue Reading “Sweet Mary Spence”
You taught me to stop and smell the dandelions, to value toes-in-wet-grass. You showed me the beauty in earthworms, glory in dirt-under-the-nails. You remind me to forgive and to seek forgiveness, to desire redemption-in-hugs. You, my girl, showed me love both fierce and sweet,… Continue Reading “a poem for my daughter on her ninth birthday”
I don’t know of a time in my life when I wasn’t wondering about something. As a kid I wondered about the man on the moon (I thought he looked like my Uncle Phil). I wondered about worms and birds and rain and the… Continue Reading “Awaken Your Wonder”
As I read about President Roosevelt’s role in recovering the nation during The Great Depression, I learned how much of a hero he became to many of the people. They hung pictures of him on the wall, they prayed for him, respected him, listened… Continue Reading “In the Market for a Hero”
Yesterday I got three giant boxes full of books. A man rolled them out to my van on a dolly and hefted them in the back (moving a few misplaced markers first – I’m just glad there weren’t any dirty socks or gross food… Continue Reading “Me and My Girl Pearl”
Congratulations to Kathi Hanson! She’s the winner of Brenda Yoder’s book Balance, Busyness, and Not Doing It All. Kathi, I’ll get your address to Brenda and she’ll mail your copy soon. If memory serves, I started playing basketball in third grade. We practiced every… Continue Reading “Hoop Dreams”
A few weeks ago I stood at the kitchen sink, scrubby in hand and a pile of dishes before me that seemed to have been crusted with food particles since the dawn of time. (Note: my dishwasher is old. It rolls across the floor.… Continue Reading “On Life and Letting Some Things Go (also, a giveaway!)”
Last week my family went on a trip to a zoo. We’re zoo people. It’s fun for us to explore new places and see the crazy animals. As we walked through, we stopped at the flamingo habitat. The pink diva birds stood on their… Continue Reading “a duck in a flamingo world”
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