I answer my phone with a joke. “Did you lock yourself in the chicken coop again?” It wouldn’t be the first time she’d gone out in the morning to feed the chickens and collect eggs to find the latch had fallen into place and locked her in with the flock. But the voice on the other end wasn’t joking. “I fell, I’m hurt…I think I broke my back.” The voice is my mom and yet not my mom, strangled and gasping for breath. I’ve never heard her sound like that. I am out the back door scanning our …
Letters To My Daughter: On Our Feast of Words
To my dearest Kaia, I know you long for the letters to make sense, to unite themselves and speak to you. I know each syllable is a battle for you and I see you fighting. By the time you are able to read this well, you will have won the battle. You will have put in the hours of tracing your finger along the page and sounding out each painstaking phonics rule with your brows knit tight and the corner of your lower lip tucked between your teeth. You will have arranged letter tiles, your tiny …
It Speaks to Me
It's been a long time since I've done a links post partly because I've been busy with my book and haven't been reading as much, but there's some good stuff out there so I resurrected ~It Speaks to Me~ so you'd have a chance to read these too if you missed them among the 180 million blogs in the world. How Culture Affects Our Expectations of Leaders by Sandra Maria Van Opstal for Christianity Today Gender, ethnic, or socioeconomic biases affect how we choose leaders. In his book on Asian …
