The girls want so badly to be gardeners. They see all the lush, verdant jungle around us and something inside them is reaching out to cultivate and grow. Unfortunately, that’s a huge hurdle for me as a mom. After all the other things we do throughout the day… and because it’s 90 degrees all the […]
I forget. I always forget. Ray and Willa haven’t grown up with my norms. They aren’t walking through parks, malls, restaurants, or sitting in traffic at red lights. We’ve been back in PNG from our last furlough for over a year and in that time they haven’t seen a drinking fountain, a public restroom, consistently […]
The following is an assignment about forming imagery in stories from Ray’s homeschooling curriculum that took on a beautiful life of its own. I encouraged her as she dictated, and helped her to order what became an elaborate story in a manner that made sense to those of us not living in her head, but […]
No matter how I strained my ears in the courtroom, I couldn’t understand what was being said. The air con was blasting and the lighting seemed bureaucratic and unfriendly. The judge was an older Australian donning a tired judge’s wig. Now and again a word would stand itself up and swirl in my brain as […]
I started writing this Monday afternoon. It’s been a very long time since I made a concerted effort to write, and I was proud of myself. Despite the typically unbearable heat of October I was winning. Ray was spending a much anticipated afternoon at the office. Willa was asleep. Cricket was asleep. Two children peaceful […]
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