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Growing Gnarly Roots

 In our front yard, between the rosebush and the daylilies, grows a Redbud tree.  For one week in the spring, our Redbud tree flowers gloriously, bursting into beautiful purple blooms.  The rest of the year, however, it is a rather ho-hum kind of tree....

To Be Known

  “We all are born into the world looking for someone looking for us.” – Curt Thompson, founder of Being Known A few moments after my second son was born, I found myself somehow alone in a room with him (a miracle in a hospital).  Just minutes...

This Round Goes to the Minivan

“Did you see the dead snake in the driveway?” my husband asked me one night last week as I cleaned up from supper.  “No,” I replied. “Oh,” he answered nonchalantly, “well, there’s a dead copperhead on the driveway.” What?!!  I put down the dishcloth to...