My heart is steadfast, O God;I will sing and make music with all my soul. I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;I will sing of you among the peoples.For great is your love, higher than the heavens;your faithfulness reaches to the skies. -Psalm 108: 1, 3-4

1. William, 18 months, walked across the room, tripped on his own feet, and landed on a plastic cup. The cup did not move; the cut, which neatly bisected his left eyebrow, required ten stitches. 2. William, 33 months, stood on the toilet and leaned over the sink. His hands slipped; his chin hit the […]

Have you ever had one of those days when, all day, you didn’t really know what day of the week it was? You know, where you thought that it was Wednesday but in fact it was only Monday? Well, all day I have been feeling as if today is Friday. It isn’t. It’s Thursday. “Why?” […]

We’ve been studying, among other things, the octopus in our homeschool. Now here is a fascinating creature. A mollusk (who knew?), the octopus is relative to clam, oyster and mussel. But she makes use of her spineless, shell-free state: that soft body can insert itself into minute cracks and dark slips of spaces where it […]

What’s good is macaroni and cheese for lunch on a cool, rainy day. Macaroni and cheese from a box, made with Real Butter. And a hot dog. A real Oscar Mayer weiner that makes no promises whatsoever to save me from anything like fat, cholesterol, or calories. There are times when one needs salvation from […]

She looks the way I expect her to look, and so I wonder if I have seen her photo already somewhere, but I don’t remember it. At the other end of middle age, perhaps, a woman of average height and build, dark hair gone mostly grey and hanging thickly past her shoulders.We hear her first […]