When my daughter first graduated high school, she continued her art studies with a private tutor who was a student at the University of Oregon. Instead of going home to New Hampshire at the end of each spring term, the tutor opted to stay because she said Oregon summers were delightful. I wonder what she’d […]
John 16:33
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When Our World Collapses
On this the nineteenth anniversary of 911, my state was under siege. Smoke hung like a curtain over our valley. Wild fires raged in the hills. The threat of evacuation hovered in levels 1, 2,and 3, dependent upon where you lived. What began as a high wind warning last Sunday turned forest fires […]
2019–Friend or Foe
Like many of you, I can’t believe another year is upon us. Within a handful of days, 2019 will utter the first wails of existence. Like a newborn baby in its mother’s arms, the new year arrives with a clean slate full of promise. Whatever events await us will unfold like a toddler learning to […]
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A Blip on the Radar
Discouragement colored my husband’s face as he came through the door and dropped the car keys on the hall tree. “I just had a fender bender.” Shocked, I asked the obvious. “Are you all right?” Nothing like this had happened in our forty-three years of marriage. But he’d had a rough Thanksgiving week. His only […]