For most of us, 2020 has been the worst year in memory. It’s as though we’re under attack. Who is the enemy? Is it COVID-19? Racism? According to Oxford Dictionary an enemy is “a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something”. A virus isn’t a person, and neither is racism. So …
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I I was in the Air Force for 2 years; I never deployed and never saw combat. No one could rightly say “she is a brave airman” because I did not do a single thing to put myself in that category. I never had the opportunity. My husband, on the other hand, has been deployed …
I was at the grocery store looking for paper plates when I saw, on the top shelf, two jars. One was large and one was small. Each had the word CONTENMENT printed on its label. I took down the small jar and looked at the ingredients: spouse, children, house, clothes, cars, vacations, sundries. I put …
This essay was originally published on my personal social media page in 2018. It elicited equal amounts of ire and praise. I’m open to comments at the bottom of this post. Christian gals, I am thrilled that so many of you are confident with the body God gave you! Your legs? Your décolletage? You’re proud …
In the movie, Home Alone, the short bad guy would mutter “rasa-frasa-rasa-frasa” whenever he was angry or frustrated. Some of my days are so comically awful that all I can do is collapse into my recliner after the kids are in bed and ask no one in particular, “What the rasa-frasa was that all about??” …
There was that one day when things got so bad that I daydreamed about what it would be like to be single again. Without a husband and toddler, there would be no combat boots carelessly kicked off in the foyer, no dirty laundry dropped by the side of the bed in an ever-growing pile, no …
“There are two ways to be rich. One is by acquiring much. The other is by desiring little.” Please read that again, slowly, and consider which category you fall into. I used to be that girl who tried to acquire much. My husband tells people that there was a time early in our marriage when …
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“Why you make that face, Mama?” Findlay asked. I blinked back tears and pointed to a word on the page. “Sound out this word.” Findlay wasn’t fooled; he wouldn’t look at the word but instead continued to search my face. The tears refused to be dammed back by clenched eyelids. I ugly cried. Blubbered, I …
Once, my sister asked me to watch her son while she showered. I remember looking at my nephew and thinking, “one of us is going to die in the next 20 minutes.” At the time I had absolutely no idea what to do with a kid. And I had no desire to know. But after …
