begin – an introduction

After last week’s Five Minute Friday announcement, my inbox just about had a coronary from the sudden exertion it endured, and I nearly drowned in a flood of emotion and gratitude.  I never could’ve anticipated such a warm and gracious welcome, and am ever so honored...

finish (and five minute friday news)

It happens, sometimes.  Okay, it happens often. I bite off a project that is far more than I can chew, and slowly, gradually, the train of motivation sputters and chokes until it runs out of steam and comes screeching to a halt in the middle of the tracks. Project...

where i belong

It’s Five-Minute Friday again, and this week we’re over at Crystal Stine’s place with the word BELONG.   Ready … GO. It’s pushing a trolley through a Cape Town Pick n’ Pay and asking where to find the ketchup instead of the...

exhale

That year, Father’s Day and our anniversary fell on the same day, and was spent stuffing and zipping suitcases before scurrying off to the airport.  We hugged goodbye as I gathered my three chicks around me like a mother hen and shuffled them through security to...

lost

Linking up once again with the lovely Lisa-Jo Baker for Five-Minute Friday, and this week the prompt is LOST. It was the day after I had flown over an ocean with three kids in tow, the day after we had landed to find her too weak to rise from the couch, the day after...

pass it on

We used to play “Telephone” in elementary school, that game where the first person in the row cups his hand to the ear of the next person, and whispers a message into the waiting listener, who in turn would shift from left to right and whisper what they...