I sort of laughed off the question when it was first asked. After all, it’s kind of hard to take a drunken Moose too seriously. I was at my class reunion recently, chatting with a long-time friend and a new friend when someone who clearly wasn’t a classmate approached us. When he extended his hand…
Category Archives: Mary
Are You Heading “Back to School?”
Studies show that children lose the equivalent of 2 months education over summer break. Educators use this to make the argument for year-round school or summer homework assignments. Now that the boys have been back in school for a week or three, I’m seeing that they aren’t the only ones who’ve suffered from the “summer…
Google vs Garmin on the Path of Life
We recently made a trip to the town I grew up in to visit a friend at a location I vaguely remembered. We moved away from there when I was 15, so I’d never driven around there myself. We figured the Google Maps directions Hubs wrote out and our recently-handed-down Garmin, combined with my generally…
Trapped by my own grip
This is a bug house. It’s meant for young explorers to place their backyard prey into without suffocating them like our generation did when we simply put the bugs into a glass jar with some bits of grass and a couple holes poked in the lid. A couple of summers ago I discovered a new…
Bloom Where You’re NOT Planted
Is it possible to blossom when you’ve been planted in a situation without the things that nourish your soul? When deprived of some of your own basic ‘nutrients’ do you have what it takes to display God’s handiwork in your life anyway?
Last fall these bulbs were sitting perilously close to the surface, in danger of becoming a mid-winter snack for the fat, scavenging squirrels that have the run of the neighborhood.
I lifted them from their precarious spot, and stuck them on the shelf, intending to bury them deeper in a more advantageous location. But as the weather turned and I stopped going out back, they sat forgotten…
Right of Way
There’s a little town next door to ours that lays claim to “the highest per capita income” in the state. Now I’m not really sure of that statistic–I can think of a few other places with just as few “shoddy” neighborhoods and just as many chic inhabitants–but that’s what they believe of themselves to some…
A Northern Exposure Life
Our house here is situated on the lot so the front of the house faces east and the rear (where the kitchen and family room are) faces west. I miss the wonderful southern exposure of our home in Portland; the main areas of the house were bright all the time, which was important to me…
Imperfectly Real
The center stone of my wedding set has a ‘feather.’ That’s a rather romantic name for what amounts to a chunk of diamond missing where one facet should be. I don’t know if the feather was always there—the set belonged to my husband’s mother before me. The jeweler called about it when we left it…
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