Elves in Disguise

I’ve discovered the secret to fast, easy Christmas decorating. Lock your door and don’t let your Bible study group leave until they have unpacked and assembled your tree, hung your ornaments, and decked your halls. Then, bribe them with hot brownies to carry the empty boxes back out to the storage shed.
It works beautifully.

Caleb likes [...]

Night Snow

swirling, singing bits of lacesnowflakes performtheir whirling dance
meeting togetherin frozen embrace
falling through the charcoal sky,
swept in passioned minuetbefore the heedless wind–
white waltzersin night’s ballroom
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Slip Slidin’ Away

This morning we awoke to new snow and a thin crust of ice all over the roads. In spite of the fact that we live in Idaho, where people are expected to know how to drive on the stuff, the first real snow is always accompanied by a sharp learning curve as the denizens of [...]

More Scraps

A Precipitous Goodbye to NaBloPoMo

Now that I have officially defaulted on NaBloPoMo, and the pressure is off, I could go back to my more usual posting frequency of one or two times a week, although I like Karyn’s idea of continuing the daily posting habit just for the sheer joy of it. I imagine I’ll eventually settle into some [...]

Aaaargh!

It is 12:20 am. I MISSED the midnight deadline for posting my daily blog entry for NaBloPoMo today!
I mean….yesterday.
The little troll on my shoulder is whispering in my ear that I should just backdate the post and no one will be the wiser.
But the memory of Jimmy Allen, my renowned and formidable Bible professor from [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy your family. Enjoy your feast.
And before you cook that bird, don’t forget the traditional Turkey Dance.

Blessings

I think I’m finally getting on top of this bug, and none too soon. If I don’t show up tomorrow, Thanksgiving will have to go on without the green bean casserole! Perish the thought! I’m also making sweet potato casserole with pecan topping (a dish I’ve noticed is not very widely included [...]

Overdose?

I’m not sure what happened to today. I woke up hacking and coughing, took some Robitussin, and now, some nine hours later, my memory of the intervening hours has shrunk down to a shadowy montage of interlocking scenes: laying like a slug on the couch, pulling together some sort of noontime meal for the rugrats [...]

Lessons from Roswell

When my sister heard I was sick, she rushed right over with espresso fudge truffles (they may not have any healing qualities, but they make me forget how yucky I feel for ten seconds at a time) and Season One of Roswell on DVD. She says that’s what she likes to watch when she’s [...]