When we stopped at the Waffle House on Christmas Day, Mama Sue poured coffee and took our order and she wore earrings shaped like the lights you see on Christmas trees — one red, the other green. The earrings lit up and, though I was mesmerized, it wasn't enough to make me ask Mama Sue if she was …
More Love
We moved around a lot when I was young, but by the time that I was three years old, we’d settled into a little yellow cape cod on a suburban cul-de-sac in New Jersey. My dad commuted over the bridge into the city each day for work. My mom taught piano lessons in our living room and worked herself …
“Meet You At The Red Light” {and other things my Daddy taught me}
You know how you grow up in a house with people all around you saying and doing the same things all the time, and you just figure that's how things are in everyone's house? Then, you go to visit one of your girlfriends and you realize not everyone puts sugar on their spaghetti, or sings out loud to …
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Parenting Years
I heard my son’s keys unlock the back door early Friday evening. He’s twenty-four and in parenting years, that means six years old was just yesterday. I hardly ever see him during the day. He’s got things to do, places to go, people to see. You know the drill. He’s grown. I haven’t read him a …
Best Games Ever!
On our last night in Texas (after the relief of realizing Jennifer hadn't been raptured), the editorial team from The High Calling got together for a fun night of games, snacks, and music. I wish you could have been there. Really, I do. We had so. much. fun! There was a disco ball. Need I say …
Something That Helps
Early on, when we were first trying to figure out how a person was actually supposed to stay married 'til death do us part and (if I'm being honest here) wondering if the wedding vow people were serious when they wrote that part, H and I used to ask people who'd been married for any significant …