I hold one end of the measuring tape while my husband walks backward. The metal unwinds until he reaches the spot he wants marked. His thumb stops at the line and he bends the tape toward me to show its number. He marks it down, and I let go of the winding tape while he […]
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“Owwwwwch!” I moaned to no one but anyone who might be so inclined as to listen. Making the bed has its risks. Working from left to right I consistently stub my toes on the hard edge of the bed foot and hit my shin on the metal corner of the mattress frame. Why such consistency, […]
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I stretch my arm in waking fogginess. My fingers begin a walking search for my glasses. I am not a morning person. “Not” in an extreme sense. I get up at neither an insanely early hour nor late and try to make it a habit. Break the routine, and the earth will sink, the tower […]
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Slowly the crowd came to its feet. Some laboriously used the row ahead for leverage. Over the attendees, silver glinted, like imperfect halos, caught by the lighting above. Although the gathering, a conference on intentional Christian grandparenting, had its share of “over-the-hill-ers,” a spattering of younger attendees also stood. Strains of the hymn, “How […]
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