The lights of the season are slowly appearing around our neighborhood and along our city streets. Just here and there for now but in a few short days, most every house will be lit by a tree in the window or sparkling lights on the eaves. There are […]
With the trees near peak color here in mid-Michigan and the grasses in the fields brown and spent, it is almost impossible not to think of things that have passed or are passing. It would be easy to sit and think about all of the losses and struggles […]
Our family is not big on Halloween. We have never understood how fear could be made fun and the darkness of death glorified. Perhaps our experiences of the reality of fear and of death have come close enough for us to realize how not fun they are. Or […]