Monthly Archives: October 2009

Mind’s Eye

By Gretchen I’ve thought about him all morning, dressed like a Jolly Green Giant, but not jolly nor giant. Sam is the Frog Prince in a class play this morning. “I’m so nervous.” He looked grim as we prepared for the day. “You will do great! You will have so much fun! No reason to…

And her name is Love.

By Stephanie I know I don’t write here often. But I had to today. After a long week of trying to fight a cold and no sleep and sick kids and you know that exhaustion that comes over you as a mother, or a father, when you are just carrying the weight of the world?…

The First Day of October

By Beck Autumn was at its peak last weekend, and we drove down a country road surrounded by 100 year old farmsteads and red orange yellow leaves on trees and Mennonite boys in straw hats chasing sheep down hills turning gold with the cold fall sweeping in and taking all of the leaves away. The forests…