I remember the VHS machine perched on top of our oak TV stand whirring to life; chunk-clunk the tape slid in and the movie started. Three littles were bundled into warm blankets with favorite teddy bears wedged all around them on the couch, the cord from the hanging lamp snaking …
I’ve been wanting to share this story with you for a long time and the start of a new year is probably the right moment. In August I was walking along the path that leads to the back of the farm and was in a hurry. I tripped over a …
Is it Christmas without a tree? We have no tree. It’s not that we don’t have a tree, it’s just that we did not put it up this year. My decorations are deep in a cardboard box buried under mounds of household junk waiting to be unpacked when we finish …