I love decorating ― artistically designing a space ― making it beautiful for the person living there. However, I hadn’t redone it in my own home for years. In early adulthood, I chose the theme of lighthouses to remind me of what is real beyond where the ocean kisses the shore. As the title of …
This last Sunday I visited a church for the first time and unbeknownst to me beforehand, they used one of my poems for the call to worship. The poem the pastor selected was one that was originally written about a friend but as I sat there and listened to it being read aloud in the …
This afternoon I was teaching a second grade class who had earned their game day. While sitting at my desk, I overheard a scrap of conversation between two girls that included the phrase, “said you’re not her friend anymore.” So I called both girls over, started to hear what was going on, called the third …
