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The other day, I stood on the sidelines as the high school marching band finished up its morning rehearsal. Our oldest daughter plays the marimba for the band. She’s one of several eighth graders invited to play with the high schoolers this year. So, as you might imagine, that’s a little intimidating, especially with challenging musical arrangements. […]
They still ask me to come and see. Every time they build a new Minecraft village with cobblestone, wooden planks and iron ore. Every time they make some new craft out of popsicle sticks and too much glitter. Every time they pluck fist-fulls of clover and ask for a vase. “Mom,” they say, with high-pitched voices […]
It’s my fourth birthday, and Mom stands on the hem of my memory. I’m playing musical chairs with cherry-cheeked friends in the next room. And I think I see Mom on the edge, putting candles in a cake while standing barefoot in the kitchen. But it’s all so fuzzy. Fast-forward to another party: I see the […]
Once upon a time, I was in a collision on an Iowa highway. That morning, while the red lights of an ambulance spun outside my windshield, never once did I think about all the stuff that occupies far too much of my everyday thought life: What if I fail today? Do people care what I […]
Dear daughters, No one was ever designed to carry her burdens alone. That’s what I thought when I watched the two of you to carry that pail of rocks to the shore. You volunteered to help carry the weight of someone else’s world for a few hundred steps. I hope you never forget how heavy those burdens […]