Living Life as a Miracle: Broken

Living Life as a Miracle: Broken

Dang! The ancient stretch cord holding the beads and bangles of a Christmas bracelet broke, and all of the baubles came tumbling down. Just as we headed out to church service on Sunday. My wrist would not be holiday-adorned. Crunch! I nearly fell as I stepped from the...
Life as a Road Trip Miracle

Life as a Road Trip Miracle

It was a spectacular summer day in Hoosierland, and we were on the fly. Radio rocking our rental car, zooming at 75 mph on the Interstate, slicing Midwestern humidity like a butter knife. We’d landed at O’Hare a couple of days earlier, intent on...
Living Life as a Miracle: the lost is found!

Living Life as a Miracle: the lost is found!

Today is our wedding anniversary! Hurrah and hallelujah! Since I have been in a miracle mindset, let me repeat: one of the three best miracles of my life is the night I met Larry Colando by the beer keg. The other two are my birth and my re-birth. Amen. Let me add...
Step Child

Step Child

“One of these things is not like the others; one of these things doesn’t belong.” Do you hear that jingle, instituted on Sesame Street on episode one, rummaging around in your brain? Does it resound, helping you to notice aspects of unique,...
Green and red

Green and red

Here’s a map of California, showing the counties in which 62.5% of the voters passed Prop 13. Look at the red: a small land mass lost to big consequences for green, as in money. Larry and I were in California, seeking jobs, when Prop 13 passed in 1978. Our...