A Song Not Scored For Breathing

Driving 900 miles round trip in two days is one definition of insanity. Which is what we spent the last two days doing. As a result I'm ...

Sunday. All week I could hardly wait. Well, except when I didn't . I was like a kid counting how many sleeps were left. The last few da...

I feel like I'm tiptoeing in here trying not to get caught. Did you know typing could feel like that? The resident Energizer Bunny is r...

Energizer Bunny is trying to lick the keyboard. Maybe she's thanking it for not taking over my life the last 4 days. There's real...

Well, tomorrow is Ash Wednesday so this will be my last post until Sunday. I think my house will be a whole lot cleaner by the time Easter c...

It's been draining weekend. I think this is the last night of a week straight of overnight lows mostly in the -30's and 40's. T...

Hibernating within the four walls of our home during the cold snap has made it hard to keep track of what day of the week it is. Today it w...

At one point here since midnight it was -55C with the windchill factored in. The power was out for three hours mid day. I went and started...

"We have places of fear inside us, but we have other places as well - places with names like trust and hope and faith. We can choose t...

"Conversion, the movement toward the Lord, is a process of disenchantment with the ego, recognizing how truly afraid and poor it is. Th...

I'm trying to type with a dog on my lap. A dog that keeps sticking its butt in my face. There. I put her down on the floor and so she si...

Earlier this morning I thought to myself, it would take less energy to lay my head on the key board and cry than to lift my arms and type . ...

"There is nothing all that bad about mixed motives, unless we think they are pure." ~Falconbrother I'm listening to James Tay...

Life is slowly returning to normal around here. I found myself teary yesterday, writing in my journal and trying to process my feelings. Ev...

I can smell roast beef cooking as I type. Roast beef was youngest son's birthday meal request. As of today I am no longer the parent of ...

Yesterday we gathered with dearest one's family for the afternoon and evening. He and his siblings take turns organizing the day, plann...

Originally we were going to be just four for Christmas dinner. Dearest one, me, only daughter and youngest son. In the end dearest one's...

Today is my first pajama day since I came home from treatment three and a half months ago. After 20 days of getting dressed and showered I f...

This afternoon the batch of fudge just about ready to put in the pan when the phone rang. As I raced to pick it up before the answering mac...

A few weeks back I picked up my Bible to read in Romans and the whole way through I felt condemned....preachers from my past echoing in my h...