Category: remembering
Updated on September 11, 2020
The stories we tell on this day …
This day. It appears on the calendar out of the sweltering blue of summer and amidst the slow push into fall, breaking the patterned chaos with its remembering. Those crystal clear details of 18 years ago; how the room …
Posted on May 17, 2019
A Prayer As We Go
Click HERE and I’ll read the whole thing to you in about 3 mins! We’ve played the final concert, cheered for the final game, taken the last test, cleaned out the notebooks and signed all the yearbooks. And …
Updated on August 23, 2018
What is it you need to remember?
“Hey, Mom! You know it’s been almost 22 years since you went to school here, right?!” my oldest bellows his discovery across the breadth of the rambling porch at my college sorority house. There is a young sister …
Updated on February 8, 2018
A prayer for the wrong day
I had the wrong day. All day. There are weeks where Wednesday and Thursday are somewhat interchangeable. But this was not one of them. I sent the wrong kid to school with a note to stay after on …
Updated on November 1, 2017
How to use a compass
Orienteering. I just had to Google that word to make sure I was using it correctly. It involves reading a map and using numbers, in the woods on unknown paths. Yeah. My brain is missing the neurons it …
Updated on December 31, 2016
Why I need a word for this New Year
2016 is down to its last few hours. And some folks are quite happy about this, according to my Facebook newsfeed. The death, destruction and chaos that have dominated the news cycles lately seem to have everyone running headlong into 2017 with the …
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