Tag: <span>children</span>

I began 2011 with a vision for the year: The Year of the Cup.  I imagined the twelve months before me as empty vessels to be filled with God’s trademark…

Thoughts and Musings

What does one do when one returns to Pittsburgh from a beach Thanksgiving to find a grey-shrouded, mist-breathing Midwinter has settled on her heavy haunches to brood until spring hatches?…

Thoughts and Musings

His fingers.  My nose.  Her self. Aaaarrrrgh.  I can’t do it.  I can’t limit myself to just six words.  See?  Here I am rambling on, belaboring you with the curse…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

Last night found me stalking bull frogs around the perimeter of a neighbor’s pond.  My feet squelched in grass boggy from regurgitating the over-abundant rains of the past week.  Little…

Kids and Treasures Wanderings and Travel

I broke one of my cardinal rules last night.  The rule crumbled around 2:33 am, which is as good a reason as any for a rule to break.  The rule…

Thoughts and Musings

Dear Little Friend, I was in fourth grade, sitting in the front-ish, second-ish row of class when Mrs. Bower walked over to the water fountain.  The room was quiet…long division…

Thoughts and Musings