Twenty Nine Years Ago Yesterday: Genevieve
When I was not quite nine years old, Mom was El Preggo with the third of my four younger siblings. It had been a cold, happy winter of family gatherings and more than the normal amount of living room…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
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Eyewitness of His Majesty (Small Stone January 22)
Sitting on a hard pew, sliding around on the polished wooden planks because of my polyester dress and winter tights, shivering from the cold air, I look forward and blink. I am listening to the scriptures passively at first,…
Most Serious Small Stone Ever
I drop in the peeled chunks of orange, fibrous and glistening, along with the firm, fragrant pieces of banana. Spooning in a tub of plain Greek yogurt and then drizzling over that some local honey, I suddenly feel so…
Espionage and the Ballerina*
This afternoon, in the bright January sun and with that great emotional conflict I always feel at the end of a really special read, I finished one of the richest and most view-widening books I have ever had the…
Raised Beds: Foundation Day
A scientist is in Heaven. He walks up to God and claims to have cracked the code for creating life, that he knows how to manipulate small amounts of common soil to become a living, breathing organism. The…