How do you picture the day of a best-selling author? Sitting in a beautiful setting, sipping tea, reading classic literature, and penning prose? Or perhaps having time to sit and ponder major plot complexities. Or maybe ... just breathing life to words on this page this way. In real life this was my day: 7:45 a.m. woke up and realized I slept in and my three little … [Read more...]
Signs of Spring
Last Thursday, April 9th, it snowed a few inches here in Minnesota. I was so thrilled, that I wrote a little song about it: "Oh, the weather outside is frightful Snow in April is NOT delightful But it’s better than 40 below So let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...." The next day, my family and I did the only logical thing—we drove to a state even colder than ours—North Dakota. It was … [Read more...]
An Unexpected Adventure
Life is an adventure. We can probably all agree on that. Sometimes it takes some unexpected twists and turns. I just got back from one of those. It was a good twist, but one I never expected to find myself taking. I spent all of last week in Brazil. When you ask me where I want to travel, what I what to see, what I hope to experience, Brazil never hit the list. In fact, traveling south of … [Read more...]
Books: Snapshots of Our Lives
John and I are in the process of adopting four girls, ages 14, 12, 12, and 10, from the foster care system. They are beautiful, smart, and funny. We've had two day visits and one weekend visit with them, and John and I are just scratching the surface at discovering who these amazing young women are. At the same time John and I are trying to share our lives, our likes, our values, . . . and our … [Read more...]
My Long Lost Cousin
Not long ago, I was scrolling through my facebook newsfeed. There's no possible way that I can keep up with all of my friends' posts, so I tend to zoom through as many as I can for five minutes here and five minutes there. I came upon this picture: I thought, Cute! They must be twins. I happened to read the caption, written by a lady named Kathie. It read, "I find this such an … [Read more...]
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