Personality. Some people have it in spades; others seem to have been passed over when they were handing it out. Some people have one that draws you to them like a moth to a light; others have one that repels you like matching ends of a magnet. I love it when people have a distinct […]
Writing
Halfway There!
Well, sports fans (as my sister-in-law’s father would say), we are halfway through the month of October, which means I have fifteen posts behind me! Last night I was so tired that I came very close to giving up my goal of posting every day this month. But I really didn’t want to give up […]
What Thankfulness Does For Us
It was after 9 o’clock. My mom and I had just returned from an almost-fruitless shopping trip and I had just driven home in the pouring rain, trying to stay awake, straining against my gritty-feeling contacts to see the lines of the road. We hadn’t eaten supper, so I went to the fridge and got […]
Frances and the Bully
Frances watched as Roberta ambled her way across the playground, quite apparently enjoying the fear that came across the other children’s faces as her shadow crossed their path. Stopping every now and then to stomp on a sand castle, Roberta finally reached her target: Catherine, Frances’ younger sister. Frances’ hands clenched into tight fists by […]
Pretty and Practical
This morning I was looking at a journal in which I’d written some devotional thoughts and I found one that looked appropriate for this time of year. It was fun to look back and see what my style was like back then. I took out a couple of the more dramatic sentences that wouldn’t have […]
The Story of Your Life
“Worlds discovered and ones not yet explored. Happiness, love, revenge, despair, mercy, compassion…life. Too many to count and not enough hours to read them all. Crisp bindings or worn pages. Books. With every page a telling of a story whether true or imagined. Sometimes I get so lost in the narrative of a book that […]