by Lee | May 2, 2011 | teachable moments
Its a complicated thing to mourn someone bent on evil. As I rose this morning and staggered downstairs, messy haired, glassy eyed, my farmboy spilled the headline news. And it dripped all over my mind. A man determined to take American life, outright murder the...
by Lee | Apr 30, 2011 | family
It isn’t all about me.Even a few minutes around our family would reveal to a stranger that we have two high functioning extroverts in our ranks. Three enjoy people but recharge alone. And one of us is an introvert who loves the people she knows. There are...
by Lee | Apr 28, 2011 | Motherhood
I love a good commercial.One of my favorite types are the ones where the mom walks down in a white terrycloth bathrobe, pours a cup of steaming hot coffee (previously brewed) and sniffs the aroma. And I watch in expectation. Remembering years of pouring cups,...
by Lee | Apr 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Several years before children, I went to a Women of Faith conference in Denver. It was a snowy drive up with a woman I hardly knew and I sighed relief as we pulled into our hotel that night with a little extra time before the conference. I’d gone, virtually a...
by Lee | Apr 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
So you want to be a writer?Ummm. Yes.What do you want to write about? *pause* About all the things the Lord speaks to me in the mundane moments of life.You think people would really read about that? YOUR boring, mundane life?I guess I don’t really know. But I...
by Lee | Dec 16, 2010 | Christmas
There were days when I thought I’d never hear Gabi sing. Days when I sat on the floor of my kitchen holding her while she cried and screamed and I cried and screamed on the inside. I didn’t know what she wanted and she couldn’t tell me. Mothers are...