The following was written and published at Heart and Home in March 2008, just six weeks after my Marine deployed to Iraq. Listen. Do you hear that? Stillness. Complete quiet. Both my boys are sound asleep. The first soft notes of an old Amy Grant song I loved as a little girl are beginning to…
Archive | November, 2009
Hanging In There
Some of you may remember when my husband, my Marine, deployed to Iraq in early 2008. Our boys were 21 months and seven weeks old, respectively, and we’d been stationed at a new base in southern California for six months. It was our first deployment and, at that time, the hardest thing we’d endured as…
Pond-Hopping, Part Two
Oxford, England In England this fall, Philip and I enjoyed the blessing of meeting two of our YLCF readers in the flesh: one from California and one from the UK. For part one, click here. In Oxford-town we made the merry acquaintance of the English-born, India-reared Rebekah from Aberdeen. “In front of the Bodleian,” we…
Pond-Hopping, Part One
Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England If there is anything that travel has taught me, it’s just how small the world really is. Perhaps it’s a bit ingenuous of me, but I can’t quite get over the miracle of the fact that we could be dining with a Parisian friend in Oxford one night and having vegetable…
And We Have A Winner!
Thank you all for your wonderful participation in our Peek Into Your Day Carnival! I’d say how much I loved it, how encouraged I was, and maybe even how many hours I spent curled up on my couch that drizzly Wednesday morning perusing your lives… but I think Lanier already covered most of it. It…
