What do the neighbors think of my front-yard native planting now? Last summer, the purple anise hyssop burst with fuzzy flower spikes for months, luring
This year, the ash came to us. It floated down, almost beautifully, landing on our windshields, our lawn chairs, and our eyelashes.We coughed on it and
for Myrtle Takken for her 95th Year Grandma walks toward Easter one more time;I see her walking not toward church but trees—trees of the farm
(1) It was Saturday, March 9, right around noon when I received a text message from my husband with two beautiful photographs of trees, and
Part of my work is to hear stories, to listen with students as they work to find passage through their lives. It is a great
I came home from a doctor last year hopping mad. We were making conversation about our lives briefly during the visit, and I mentioned that
I remember the first time I fasted, and that memory has helped me learn how to fast again. I was a college student on a
I. “Those who stutter win, in the painful pauses of their demonstration that speech isn’t entirely natural, a respectful attention, a tender alertness. Words are,
The story of the Transfiguration in Luke 9 is one of the most puzzling stories in the Bible. Biblical commentators, in fact, tend to throw
Ash Wednesday is one of my favorite days. I welcome Ash Wednesday every year because it feels like a deep breath of solemn honesty. This
