Yesterday, Ivan showed me this graphic, and we both giggled for a while. “That’s about right,” Ivan said. Beware marrying a writer, boys! Yesterday, Annalise and her cousin Abby tried out our new kiddie pool, it’s top ring mostly deflated due to Mama growing weary of inflating. I had the shop vac hose turned to […]
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A guest post by Kim Sorrelle. *** It is amazing how many names can be acquired in a lifetime. Names that come and go and names that last forever. At birth, I was given the name Kimberly Sue Langlois, Kimmie for short. My aunts, uncles, and cousins still call me Kimmie. Starting in kindergarten, I
Twelve years ago, my baby sister dreamed she would die at age twenty-one. For twelve years she threw herself heart and soul into living—spontaneous, joyful, loving with all her heart—but wondering all along if really, it would happen. This September, she turned twenty-two. The time of the curse is over and gone, the bright leaves
My Toyota Yaris came with three keys when I bought it. Unfortunately, after I had owned it a couple of years, only one key remained. The others slid down behind the couch cushions into the innards of the couch, or beneath seven-year dirt under the refrigerator, or under a flipped-up corner of linoleum in the
I briefly considered calling this post “Mennonite and Single,” but that sounds too much like a profile I might put on a Mennonite dating site—a “here I am, come and get me” type of line. Several of my non-Mennonite friends, concerned about my lack of a husband, have actually suggested I start a dating service
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