My Field Days

I’m so bad at it.  I have to prepare mentally.  I have to hold my head just right.  I have to gulp some water just to make sure my throat is still working before I put those vitamins in my mouth, sling them to the back, and hope they go down.  Sometimes they’re still sitting [...]

I was tired.  It was the end of the day, I’d come home from my final commitment, it was getting dark, and I plopped down on my glider to pet my kitty and unwind.  I pulled my phone out and realized I’d missed a message from G.  He was at his sister’s house, and wanted [...]

One of my favorite, favorite things about going to visit my family in Houston is going to Bible class with the babies on Sunday mornings.  Because the family is always growing, I’ve had many happy opportunities over the years to watch tiny hands “pat pat and pat pat” the Bible, and make the wheels of [...]

Today I stepped inside one of our construction projects.  It’s almost completion day, and it’s  so much fun to see the carpet going down, the appliances in place, painters doing touch-up, electricians putting on the final plates, mini-blinds being hung.  It always seems a bit like army ants scurrying about to make it all happen, [...]