Summer leaves alive with shimmering green, Or scarlet with autumn’s glory sheen, Evoking mysteries yet unseen. From inside my human-made abode A window peers into nature’s road. Smooth floors, paneled walls, wood fans cool, Heaters and blankets hold back winter’s fierce rule, Protection and comfort—from a human tool. Yet from […]
What Really Matters?
As I maneuver between the goalposts of my day, I brush up against all sorts of realities. Some deceivingly mundane, some clearly molehills, others require deep prayer to survive their clutching, smothering embrace. As a sat in the library on a Saturday morning where I had offered a writers’ support […]
Faith Based Schooling
One day I shared with my university professor father the name of a religious text I was using in my homeschool, and my dad snorted in disgust. “Use books with real material, for God’s sake!” The I-couldn’t-shoot-through-it-with-a-laser-gun irony was not lost on me. After all, every choice I made in my homeschooling […]