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Two Empty Rooms is shoes remain noticeably absent. The once mounded pile of laundry in the middle of the floor is gone. All the books that lay scattered throughout his room and the house — his Bible, C.S. Lewis works, the one on Paine — now sit on his dorm-room shelf. No more contagious smile […]
I raise the tiny iPhone screen so my husband can watch the video playing in my hands. A lump is already rising up in my throat, because I’ve seen this heart-wrenching video a dozen or more times over the last few years. It’s the one about a little guy named Eliot – “Dear Eliot,” the […]
I left my inner artist back in the junior high art room, but thanks-be-to-God, I’ve never lost my ability to draw a mean stick figure. Exhibit A: Exhibit B: See? Utter brilliance, eh? 🙂 But one night this week, we were asking ourselves to stretch a bit more than stick-figuring. Yeah, us– A bunch of […]
I was not qualified, that’s for sure, at least not by academic degree or teaching experience. (I had given a presentation in a third-grade classroom once, but I’m sure that didn’t count for much.) “So.” — one of my college students asked me as we drove back from a field trip yesterday — “How in […]
Some people can make you feel like your story doesn’t matter. You know what I mean. You’re sitting in the corner of a friend’s kitchen at her Pampered Chef party, and you begin to pull back a bit of the tightly-drawn curtain on your life, so she can see on the insides a little. You […]