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A Blessing
"Surprise is written into the core of creation. We never know where a 'yes' will take us." Read Becky's article about the blessing of writing for "Red Tent Living."
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Practicing Gratitude
I have had an ambivalent relationship with practice. The word alone conjures up many feelings. First, my eleven years of piano lessons were wrought with...
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To Tell the Truth
The last time I said to Dan, “I am just telling you the truth,” I was fed up with what he was doing. There is,...
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The Art of Crying
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? — King David in Psalm 56:8...
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Staying Until the End
Their departure is imminent. After a stay of seven weeks, my daughter and our two granddaughters are about to depart. Jeff began driving their car to California...
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Two-Faced
The afternoon air is sweltering as I do a cannonball and make a volcanic splash in the diving pool. I can feel the goosebumps on...
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A Wild One
Our dear sailing friend Len died several weeks ago. He was sixty years young. At his memorial service, my husband said Len was the most beautifully...
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The Treasure of a Few Seconds
What is a lifetime? If one averages a human life to 75 years, that is 27,375 days, or 657,000 hours, or 39,420,000 seconds. Those who served...
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