Category Archives: Childhood

St. Lucie

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

After dinner I run to the back fence where Christina waits, always waits. Morgan is there too, the neighbor on the other side of Christina’s heathen household. We are 8,7,6. Morgan says guess what and we say what and she … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Poetry | 2 Comments

Skit

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

A friend stayed with us this weekend, and during a Sunday night beer run to Kroger she reminded me I had promised to tell her about the one-man play I wrote and performed in high school about a teenage boy who … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Church, Faith, Friendship | 10 Comments

A Summary of why we need Christmas

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

Over the last week I’ve written a series called In Defense of Christmas about how much we need this holiday, how much I need it. In case you missed it, here is a summary of the posts with a paragraph … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Faith, Holidays | 4 Comments

In defense of Christmas, part 4

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

I have spent the last week making my case for Christmas, resting on the claim that for one month out of the year evangelical churches get all kinds of emergent without even realizing it. I’m wrapping things up today with a post on … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Faith, Holidays | 2 Comments

In defense of Christmas, part 3

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

I’ve been writing my defense of Christmas this week, making the case that nearly every evangelical church is an emergent church for one month out of the year. You can read the first two entries below, and you can tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Faith, Holidays, Parenting, Training Up a Child | 4 Comments

Jenny

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

4 years old and I kissed Jenny on top of the propane tank behind our trailer. She said I had to kiss her everytime I got home from work, so I climbed on and off the tank, our living room, … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Poetry | 10 Comments

A question you asked me a long time ago

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Kindergarten, and I am learning from home. We walk my sister to her first day of junior high, and then at home in our house trailer my mother begins my schooling. All I remember is lunch – the metal Disney lunchbox … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Marriage | 19 Comments

Good kids

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

It was Student Government Day and Lyndie and I and another senior loaded into Lyndie’s new Geo Metro and drove to the courthouse downtown. We crowded into a room of kids from the public schools and watched the overweight city … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, The Adventure of Life | 3 Comments

Red rover, red rover

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

Eleven years old and I was scrawny and awkward but smart and witty, more athletic than I looked, poorly dressed. She was new to town, the new principal’s daughter, one year younger than I; pretty, coltish, as athletic as she looked, … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood | 8 Comments