One Year In Colorado
We just crossed the one year mark of moving into our home in Pine, Colorado. The year has been full–with traveling, with hosting family and friends, with shopping to furnish rooms, with exploring our area… Some of you have read my posts on moving. When something is...
Real Life Meditations on Mark 6
Bill and I just hosted our whole family at our house in the mountains for one week. That meant fourteen of us (and a dog) in our four bedroom, three bathroom house - nine adults and five children between 5 and 9. I asked a group of women from my church to pray for...
Finding My Bearings and Gaining Insight on Race and Justice
I am a 67 year-old white Christian woman grappling with issues of race and justice in America. I recently moved from Princeton, NJ, where I attended a multi-ethnic evangelical church and was a campus minister for many years. I live now in a Colorado mountain...
The Rhythm of Trouble
In my last post, I wrote about living flexibly, in order to be useful. Since then circumstances have forced me to consider another challenge to my flexibility, which is trouble or difficulty. Trouble can take many forms. One difficulty for me is from my own...
Living Flexibly and Usefully
Bill and I have been traveling a lot this past spring. A trip with family, a trip to Seattle for work, a trip with friends and a trip back to Princeton for reunions. As we planned for each trip, I could feel in my head and body a pull of inertia. It is so much...
Lessons from Mother’s Day
We spent part of Mother’s Day with three of our grandchildren (and their parents!). It was delightful. The outpouring of love was tangible. My children went together on a new food processor, to replace my 45 year-old processor I inherited from my mother-in-law. My...