Category Archives: Marriage

Embrace: Thirty

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

It’s magic hour here in my living room. It’s just before sunset, and the light is perfect. Terrence Malick shot almost all of Days of Heaven during magic hour, which is really about half an hour, and it’s one of the … Continue reading →

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Embrace

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

2011 was a year of transition for Lyndie and Yosi and me. It was a year of accepting that certain chapters in our life were closed, that it was time to turn the pages and write something new. It was a time for … Continue reading →

Posted in Embrace, Faith, Friendship, Marriage, The Adventure of Life | 24 Comments

Hope

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Smoke in the dark barn rafters swimming through cracks of light like fish passing through sun to shadow 1 a.m. voice of friend wife asleep and daughter dreaming Footsteps in the alley below It is always hope that brings me home ~~~~~~ … Continue reading →

Posted in Marriage, Poetry | 8 Comments

A word which here means a small, safe place in a troubling world

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Exciting news I have to sit on quietly till next year. A guest post I need to write about my brief time within the New Calvinism. The grand opening of a new business venture my used bookshop is a part of, and the ongoing operation of said … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, Marriage, Parenting, The Adventure of Life, Writing | 9 Comments

Present

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

I am so very tired. This is the tired that hangs from your bones and rests smokily in your skull, euphoric but heavy. It begs sleep but numbs the need with peace. A friend came to town this weekend. There was little … Continue reading →

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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

Summer

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

Summer, she whispered, is a strong-limbed girl running through a field, barefoot and golden-haired at the end of day. We were lying on blankets on her dad’s front porch, and it was nearly dawn. The neighbor’s trees were talking Ohio … Continue reading →

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Oh Canada

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

Let’s go to Canada she said. Okay I said. We loaded sleeping bags and inadequate provisions into our Geo Metro and drove north along I-75 and found a state park on the Maumee river and set up camp. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Imperfect Prose, Marriage, The Adventure of Life, Travel and vacation | Tagged , , | 15 Comments

Arson

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

We decided to get married the first day we were together. That’s not exactly true. We danced around the actual decision for at least a month. But we talked about it the first day because that’s how you roll in … Continue reading →

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Flying Fish

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

She looks like she just stepped off a movie set, my sister said as we watched Lyndie from the adjoining room. The girl who would be my wife in an hour stared out a window of the deserted parsonage in the semi-darkness, grey … Continue reading →

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