This post in honor of my friend Katharine’s new book, Any Day a Beautiful Change. It’s about the way life changes, knocks you around, and surprises you with some grace. Katharine’s big change was the collision of motherhood, marriage, and ministry, but even if you have no connection with any of those things, her writing […]
Archives for May 2012
A Tearoom in Corn Country 
May 24, 2012 by
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit a tearoom in the middle of nowhere. Clotted cream, lemon balm jelly, finger sandwiches, the whole bit. We’re in Iowa this week, spending time with Adam’s family while he does some work out here. His grandmother invited me to join her “Red Hat” group for a trip to […]
Who forgot to turn their phone off? 
May 21, 2012 by
Yesterday, during worship (during my sermon, actually), a cell phone went off. Since I was preaching at the time, I could see the whole congregation and I noticed who reached in their jacket to turn off the phone. Adam asked me, later that day, “Whose cell phone went off in church this morning?” (Because this […]
Memorial tire swing 
May 21, 2012 by
The park near our house is full of memorial trees, and now, we also have a memorial tire swing. An 11-year old girl, Jordan Oliver, drowned in a retention pond behind her school last week. She was playing along a bridge with a bunch of other kids, slipped into deep water, and didn’t come back up. […]
My Suburban Yard
May 4, 2012 by
There’s a lot of lawn in the suburbs. Not exactly eco-friendly. Here’s our backyard, and it’s mostly lawn. But it’s cheaper to buy a house with a yard here than in the city. There’s also a lot space to grow food, if you’re so inclined. We’re right down the street from industrial-size cornfields, but ironically, […]
Bolingbrook Vista, No. 2
May 4, 2012 by
Subdivision. Soccer field (to the right). Tree, probably from the farm that was on this site for 100+ years. Creek. Graffiti.
