The other night I couldn’t sleep. This is rare for me as I am a good sleeper. I go to bed directly after I kiss my children good night. I want to read. I drift off many nights before ten o’clock. But Saturday night I kept waking up feeling like I couldn’t breathe. Additionally I […]
Being Broken by Addiction
My dog Comet is being groomed for the first time today and as I was dropping him off I glanced over at the magazines. I was drawn like a bee to pollen by the cover of Brava Magazine. It had an article about the secret addictions of women in Wisconsin, aptly titled The Silent Treatment. […]
I think I’ve got March Madness!
I think I’ve got March madness, and it isn’t about basketball. It’s been such a strange week already. I feel exhausted and I can’t identify exactly why. It cannot simply be the time loss or the season changing. It’s March and so for Wisconsin that means lots of sunshine. Lots of slush. There is an […]
On Complaining & Criticizing
“Complaining is epidemic in our world” Yep, that is pretty much the way to communicate these days. Some call it critique (I have) but it is pretty much bad news. And a bad example. And it’s gotten so out of hand with one of my kids that I just snapped recently. “Not another word!” […]
50 Years for Better or Worse
My in-laws celebrate fifty years of marriage this year and each family member was asked to write something to them. December, 2010 Dear Bonnie & Terry, I must say how much I have been blessed by a marriage that is relatively easy — For Tom and me, it was a joining of two people’s lives that made complete and total sense. Growing […]
this life-long fast [*a poem*]
This Life-Long Fast Just saw a headline in the Huffington Post. Winter Cocktails Gone Wild. And I am choked by my longing. I can’t explain it easily, but I’ll try. I still crave alcohol. Not in the way you might think. Infrequently. And not when or where you might expect. I go to church in a bar, […]
Humility is hard. Humiliation is harder.
I was asked to write some brief thoughts about the application of Philippians 2.1-11 to my life. My thoughts are neither brief nor, sadly, do I see them applied very well thus far in my life. Thankfully, the journey of faith is a road slowly traveled and full of grace. Melody “Therefore if you have […]
I’m fat. You’re fat. The first lady is not fat. Hey what’s up with that!?
According to the Mayo Clinic I am overweight. (Thank you very much.) And I have a sneaking suspicion that my kids are not doing so well either. But it turns out most parents do not even realize that their children are over weight. Even our First Lady, Michelle Obama, was caught off guard by a […]
