One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four… The smell started as a vague drift of unpleasantness. But as I cleaned off the counter, a sniff of something not quite right remained. After a few hours I came back into the the kitchen, and it smelled like a cadaver lay under the sink. A rotten potato’s […]
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“The temperature will be 94 degrees Fahrenheit, but it will feel like 104,” says the weather man. And I smile. That is my world. He is describing me. It’s kind of a faulty default. My actual situation seldom reaches the extremes of how I feel or what I anticipate. Perhaps you are different, but my […]
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“Did God save us to let us starve?” I may not have said it quite like the complaining Old Testament Israelites are recorded after their exodus from Egypt, but I may have had that very same attitude. Their question in other forms has grumbled through my own vacant soul-wanderings. The Israelites said to them, ‘If […]
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“I don’t know where we’re at,” Phil’s dad used to say from the front seat of his handicapped van. In his later days my father-in-law, sweet and intelligent seemed to live in an anxious state of lost. He leaned far forward against the taut seatbelt, and peered with squinted eyes at the road ahead. The […]
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