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When it was discovered my dad was having an affair, the family unit I’d known for twenty-seven years died. Now what I once knew as my family no longer looks the same, feels the same, or is the same. It’s felt like what I’d imagine losing a limb might feel like; first searing pain, then…
It’s September and a new school year has begun. Every autumn I have mixed feelings about the close of summer’s picnics and late nights on the deck, but am excited for the routine of a new school year! Around this time I also look at my calendar and see what I can streamline to make…
She worked as a nurse for many years, some of them while she was raising six children. She suffered and recovered from a brain aneurysm when she was 42 years old. She buried one son. She tended a garden, canning fruit and vegetables each summer to store for the winter months. She baked bread, knitted…
I slice the earth with the blade of the shovel, digging carefully around the roots of the peony bush. For two years, the bush had not thrived. It had not bloomed well and had gotten powdery mildew on the leaves. It did not get enough sun in its current location. I placed the uprooted plant…
I arrived at church for the Bible study frazzled. As we got out of the car I took my two-year-old twin boys’ hands, heading for the entrance. But one of them jerked away, my grip loosening. He raced pell-mell toward the landscaped flowerbed and plunged in, looking back to laugh at me. “Come to Mommy!”…