6-21-16 I found this rejection letter going through an old file cabinet at the last minute before our move last week. If I had given up then, for good, I would have abandoned a dream. This is my first rejection letter from almost six years ago, when I first made a real go at being …
From this house, I’ve learned that sometimes, beauty is underneath the surface. Exactly four years ago today, we bought our current home (the one we’re selling two weeks from today). We left the closing and came right back to the house to begin to uncover windows my husband had discovered on the outside of the …
Thank you, dear teacher. After months of cold days, suddenly, it’s warm out and when I picked up my son from school yesterday, his blonde temples glistened under the sweat that was forming on his brow. It’s always startling to me, really—those temples that are still so very white blonde, only revealed from a short …
Will you stand with me, right where you are? Will you stand and see the blessings in the everyday? Here, take my hand? All too often, we look ahead or behind at life–thinking of what could be or at what was. But, we need only to open our eyes to the blessings we have now. …