A Full Moon in December
It has been a full week fraught with surprise, worry, and anticipation. We are near the end of our fall semester, which means tests and papers and sorting grade...
Tag: Advent
The rain is not helping
I’m trying hard to unearth some Christmas spirit, but so far it hasn’t arrived. Thanksgiving came and went without Tami, which is still very strange...
Thanksgiving Family Photo 2014
Years ago my sister and I settled into a holiday rotation for hosting and being together so both sides of our families get equal shares of each other. We’...
St. Nicholas came today
When I was in elementary school my family lived in Germany. Even though I attended an English-speaking Department of Defense school on an Army base, all student...
The Christmas Season begins
We’re hitting all the angles this Christmas, from religious to silly, and we’re taking them all very seriously. We read scripture every morning in c...
Rethinking Christmas
It’s everywhere now that Halloween is over. Retailers pounce on the first of November ready to suck you into the “season of giving” and I have...