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What do you want for your birthday? Last year I knew exactly what I wanted … what I needed. I had been thinking about it for months, but for some reason a lump in my throat and a pool of tears [...]

Who knew we could break on so many levels … and simultaneously, too? My heart broke when my father died last summer. It’s a selfish sort of break because the brokenness doesn’t apply to him. He’s [...]

  I grew up as a committed Catholic, attending parochial school in my early elementary years and remaining active right up until my conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day [...]

Five on the bed; where one pajama ends the next begins. It’s a lazy Sunday morning {gotta love the afternoon church schedule}, and we’re nuzzling as long as possible – delaying the inevitable [...]

A single pink pearl … a salmon egg. It is small, fragile and without fish form … yet it holds the potential to become king. A king salmon. A chinook. The life cycle of this fish is incredible and [...]

In just one season, that sunflower burst 10 feet tall! The original small seed, the one cradled in my palm just months before, sprinted skyward. In the process, it developed a thick stalk and an [...]

Sun hats and soccer snacks: the season switch Three soccer games each Saturday morning – that is going to take some getting used to. In between first games one and two, I look down to see [...]