• The Story

    Re-Reading

    My life has had so many new chapters that the volumes would fill an entire mental hospital – physically.  The paper itself.   And the actual written content of the paper might fill up a mental hospital with the doctors trying to solve my insanity that’s revealed throughout the endless journals. The particular height of insanity in the year proceeding the…

  • Living Vertically,  Our Kids, Our Family,  The Story

    Intentional Rhythm

    We did it. All kids are all in school.  Even, presumably, the two in college; and the tallest one who’s in North Carolina. I now sit with this moment that I’ve projected tasks into for weeks.  “When school starts I will have more structured time to get done what I need to get done.”  Often said in the context of…

  • Living Vertically,  Our Kids, Our Family,  The Story

    Monarch

    Four weeks ago she buried her daddy.  A glorifying and Godly-gentle passing of his earthly life into the life we all feebly imagine.  Natural and blessed, he went after a long life of honest, beautiful, unconditional, limitless love.  But it still hurts.  She has always been His Little Girl.  His only littlest Little Girl.  Throughout the heart-pain of saying Good…