We can dance if we want to
My mother loves to dance. I’m not talking about the acceptable-in-almost-any-denomination waltz…
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Following the stray dog to good eats
Jamie and I catch up on life while exploring some great places to eat in Michigan.
Read MoreFinding our mo’joe
Some hunt for treasure (pirates), others for true love (lonely pirates), and still others for…THE EXCEPTIONAL CUP OF COFFEE.
Read MoreThe Sound of Calling
My grandmother never imagined when she was sewing the curtains out of the same sunflower- patterned sheets that covered my bed in her spare room that God would see them.
Read MoreBrave–but not fearless…
Her mother never told Maribel she couldn’t.
And so from the time she was the child who would come home covered in mud until she was the college sophomore involved in SCUBA diving, horseback riding, and karate, Maribel Melendez-Napoles never let the fact that she was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy tell her she couldn’t either.
Read MoreDeath of a Friend
While I slept beside my husband, Clare was slipping away, trying to hold on, I imagine, until Charles made it to the hospital just minutes away.
Read MoreFeeding Strangers
A brief introduction to the women and children we feed the first Monday of every month…
Read MoreA Death Not in the Family
I went to a wake this morning. Ironic. A-wake this morning.
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Amanda Cleary Eastep 