I’ve always played with my food, often creating edible zen gardens with dinner supper the evening meal. It annoyed my father who was a hard-working blue color worker; it frustrated my mother who was a peace-keeping stay-at-home-mom; it amused my siblings–at least I think it did. We at a lot of mashed potatoes, which make for a wonderful canvas. I’m…
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When Life is Less Than
it IS well…
A year ago I crumpled to the ground before the the first line was sung–could barely mouth the words before the undulating sobbing ensued. Unashamed and unknowing of the crowd around me, I wailed before God–with worshipping so loud know one heard my groanings, but Him. The song It is Well had been swirling around my heart for months–years. It…
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My Favorite Things
Climb every mountain; search high and low… Like hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of people, I’m enamored with The Sound of Music. Decades ago, I was in the musical, and played the part of…..Baroness Elsa Schraeder (much better costuming than Maria). I was a little bitter that these two men had been to Trapp Villa in Austria. Follow every…
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Undone in Burlington
I don’t know if it was the beautiful trees or engaging conversation, but my decades younger cousin, Megan, overshot the entrance to the Burlington, Vermont airport. It was a quick turnaround–maybe two minutes–and we were the only car at the curbside drop off. My luggage was hoisted on the sidewalk (I constantly overpack and buy too much in the journey)…
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A Year Later
June 17, 2017: It wasn’t a day like every other…I was a quarter of a world away from home at a quaint bed and breakfast, having brunch with my sisters and cousins wearing my swimsuit. We had a laid back morning (not really…my cousin and I zipped around Numansdorp trying to find a grocery store because we bought butter milk…
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