by Kit | May 14, 2017 | On Parenting, Whatever is Lovely
Raising kids is as simple, or as hard, as cooking perfect eggs. When Sean was five he said he’d take a raincheck on my scrambled eggs until I could make them like Grandma Doris. Hers were soft. Moist. Fluffy. Mine, far less magical. I tried again and again to...
by Kit | Apr 23, 2017 | On Living, Think About these Things, Uncategorized
The only thing I was (consciously) grieving when I left town was that I’d forgotten my precious. My iPhone, that is. Don’t get me wrong; I relish being disconnected. But with five errands to run on a business day, in a town thirty minutes away? I...
by Kit | Mar 6, 2017 | Devotions, On Living, Pin-couragement
My unseen actions and attitudes, this is the telling thing. Lord, turn my face toward you today, that I might be faithful in every thing, especially the small and seemingly insignificant. Where there’s no earthly accountability, help me still to take the...
by Kit | Feb 20, 2015 | On Living, On Parenting, Think About these Things, Whatever is Lovely
Winner, 2016 Cascade Award for Published Article or Blog Post, Oregon Christian Writers When life feels uncertain, I’m drawn to the pinnacles and edges of the earth. To mountaintops and seashores. And I think I know why. If you’re feeling like me, barely...
by Kit | Jan 18, 2015 | On Living, Think About these Things
Here it is, my first whisper-quiet, blank-canvas Saturday of 2015. The family still sleeps, and there’s a smoothness to this return to normalcy after all the holiday bustle, the houseguests, and the winter sicky bugs. Like a glassy mountain lake at dawn. What...