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Blue-gray morning light slants through the kitchen window. I arrange strips of bacon in a hot skillet. They pop, curl, emit an aromatic wake-up call to youngest daughter. She shuffles across the wood, dragging a pink blanket through crumbs behind her, rubs eyes with a closed fist. I crack eggs, season, butter 12-grain bread. We […]
Maybe it’s because we used to read each other’s stuff when hardly anyone else was reading our stuff. Maybe it’s because I so easily find myself in the middle of his stories about common, ordinary people like me. Or maybe it’s just because he’s the kind of guy who sees people not as fans or […]
I found the photograph this morning, the one where they’re sitting on the fence. He had slipped his arm around her waist. She steadied those high-heels on the wire and scooted close to her man. She always liked to dress him up in ties and hats and tailored suits, didn’t she? I suspect he was […]
I know when it’s going to be one of those days, even before bare toes touch carpet in the blue of dawn. I can’t explain the why of those days. I can’t explain why those days start all wrong, before feet even hit the floor. But sometimes they do. And on those days, it doesn’t […]
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladnessand the world’s deep hunger meet.— Frederick Buechner Last fall, my mother-in-law called me into her kitchen to show me that she’d found the answer she’d been searching for. She spread out the newspaper on her kitchen table, and pointed to photographs of […]