The darkness of the African morning caressed me with velvety fingers and enveloped my body with warm humid air as I found a perch on the stairs. Then I heard it, a soft shuffle, and steady steps. My [Read more...]
You want me to do what? Move back to Texas?? I argued with God. I whined. I balked. I asked for three fleece. I felt a bit like Gideon, but my request was for one more than Gideon even asked [Read more...]
“Where were they? They can’t have just disappeared.” Escaping with the giddy feeling of power in outsmarting their “jailers,” three students snuck off campus and headed for 7-Eleven three blocks [Read more...]
The sun peeked bright above the horizon of a sleepy city, and I was supposed to be writing. But when the newsfeed danced across my screen, I couldn’t help but click. Before I knew it, I was submerged, [Read more...]
And now the funerals begin. I can’t believe ten kids are dead. Again. Mowed down by a troubled peer. Again. And to think I was all set to blog about the royal wedding… maybe later for [Read more...]
For your Mother’s Day enjoyment, here are my favorite mom facts and quotes modernized with a hashtag: 1. #Detectivework: Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then it is just suspicious. 2. [Read more...]
“Repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish”- GQ explaining why the Bible is on its list of books you don’t have to read. —The Skimm My heart broke and anger welled bitter in my stomach [Read more...]
He looked rumpled like an unmade bed, as if he had fought hard for his peace. But with his charming demeanor, this whimsical bear seemed to be begging me to grasp the secret he knew deep. Carved with [Read more...]
I came around the corner and Bam! There it sat in all it’s bulging glory—a ginormous two story eyeball loitering with nonchalance in the grassy space. Talk about unnerving. The icy blue stare seemed [Read more...]
Would you want to know when you were going to die? The date. The time. The place. The how? I fear with a deadline of my mortality looming I would begin a panicked list, beanstalk high, of what I [Read more...]