I love little kids. I love their smiles, their conversations, their entertaining imaginations and happy art creations. I don’t love their innate selfishness, unreasonableness, nor their sometimes meanness. This week I was volunteering at music camp. It was lots of fun, but I’m not gonna lie, I am glad it’s over.   How many years … Continue reading Ebenezer →

“Friendships are discovered, rather than made.”  Harriot Beecher Stowe wrote. Discovered. I like that thought. I've had some great ‘discoveries’ in my lifetime.   Whenever I go to Dallas, I try to see my dearheart friend J. We like to meet at Whole Foods for our snippet visits. We talk way above the speed limit, … Continue reading What a Friend →

Even though it happened many years ago, I remember it clearly. It was Christmas break my last year of college. I was in Northern Wisconsin at HoneyRock Camp. Alone in a room full of bunkbeds. Lying on a bottom bunk. Zoned out reading a book called “I Loved a Girl” by Walter Trobisch. I had … Continue reading Always Father’s Day →

Did you get to roller-skate when you were young?  Recently I was reminded of how much I loved roller-skating. When I was a girl, our big downtown Dallas church had a recreation building with a gym, a trampoline, a four lane bowling alley, and one whole floor was a food bar and a roller skating … Continue reading Joy-seeds →