One 70-something mother had asked her 40-something daughter, “What have you written about me on The Facebook?” We giggled at her unnecessary use of the word THE. But we were truly not laughing AT her, but in delight that at least she was trying to figure it out and talk about it. Isn’t that what we all do when we learn a new word or phrase?
Month: September 2010
Your Move
“No matter how often our family comes to visit, the thing we most miss when we move away is having our friends come over.”
In the most unexpected places
“I wondered where God might camp out in a grocery store. I looked near the bags of charcoal. I looked near the bread and wine. I looked near the devils food cake.”
On The Fly
Today I am entering into a creative cave with Chase and Tracy for 24 hours. When we periodically get together to write, it is like

Squinting
“Ain’t it crazy? For a moment there this felt just like dying. But now I see that something inside. Is coming alive. Ain’t it crazy? … I lay me down in this sweet perfection. I am a witness to my resurrection…” From the song, Heal Me. By Melissa Etheridge, from her CD SKIN
Loy
Loy Grile passed away this past weekend. He and his wife, Minnie, had been married 70 years in July. Just months after I became his