As Advent arrives, I’ve been slowly and reluctantly dragging out a smattering of Christmas. I opened a box of my favorite ornaments, the ones I had packed extra carefully. The plastic wrapping did not coexist well with the August attic heat. My treasures are ruined. The ones I had tried most … [Read more...] about Holding Loosely
Corrie Ten Boom
Already There
Decades ago, my older, now-engineer brother constructed a complete, intricate N-scale model train. It was more than a train. It was an entire city. My brother and dad worked on that plywood platform, the size of a banquet table that resided in our unfinished basement, all the years I was growing … [Read more...] about Already There