I recently stopped at a pizza place to pick up fifteen pizzas for an overnight event for my son’s church group. The pizzas had been pre-paid under the name of the coordinator. Happy to help, I arrived at the pizza place ten minutes early, hoping to arrive at the church […]
Those moments when I set aside my heart’s desires to help others fulfill theirs.
Louie Zamperini’s incredible survival story and Laura Hillenbrand’s captivating writing style may lead readers to believe they are reading a work of fiction. But, this book will make skeptics into believers! “Endurance” sums up this story of an Olympic miler’s struggle in a Japanese POW camp and describes this “Odyssean […]
Thursday I was helping my son with ASD with his writing assignment. He had to describe what he can see out his bedroom window. Writing and describing was too overwhelming, so I offered to ask questions and write down his answers. Our conversation went something like the following. “What do you see out your window?” “I see […]
Your kids say they don’t want to go to the grocery store with you because they have “had enough Mom-time this week.” You feel dissed until you realize… You are about to go somewhere ALONE.. Which makes you feel giddy and guilty at the same time. The gal at the grocery […]
Monday night we got the news that vandals broke into our camper and several others. My husband went up yesterday to assess the damage. To our relief, they only broke our patio door and stole one TV and our old Xbox. Our neighbors experienced far worse from the senseless decimation […]
On this post-Thanksgiving Monday, I am thankful for my three hardworking, home schooled children. The well-deserved days off are over, which would usually result in a Monday of moaning and groaning. But, not this time. It shows me they can grow overnight, not just by proof of the sudden rise of pant […]
More times than I care to count, my son would say to me after hearing an answer, “I wrote down [insert number], I just forgot the negative.” I knew then we had a serious problem! Somewhere he had missed the important concept that negative numbers are different numbers. Eventually, number lines and […]
Tomas Transtromer is one of my favorite poets. His poem Kyrie (translated by Robert Hass) inspired two of my own poems. For me, he epitomizes the gray hope of the Swedish mindset, the melancholic optimism of glasses half empty desiring to be filled. Well-deserved congratulations to you, Mr. Transtromer! To […]
Before I let more letters represent the equation to success in math, I need to go back and address a key algebraic point. Often in algebra, we must solve for “x” without knowing “y.” Hopefully, we know some number to help us solve for “x.” But, there are times when […]
