History, Real Life, and Faith
I-5 is a driving cultural experience in California. Several years ago, I drove the length of California on an excursion that involved two different sets of family members. I drove down I-5 and returned on US-101. It’s really a classic California experience, driving I-5. Heading north from Los Angeles, once you leave the suburban valley, you wind up alongside the…
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I plot all the time–in work and real life. (Actually, I prefer to call it scheming. That sounds a little less diabolical.) What exactly is plotting? About.com defines plot this way: “Plot concerns the organization of the main events of a work of fiction. Plot . . . is concerned with how events are related, . . . and how they enact…
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We’ve been married a long time and my husband and I have found equilibrium in our foibles, but he still gets impatient when I voice fear–particularly about things that aren’t likely to happen. Some of that is our character–he’s a former steely-eyed killer of the deep, a professional military officer, a risk-taking businessman who trusts in the Lord. I try…
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Four generations of spitting images, that is. I’ve been with my adorable grandchildren this week and yesterday watched my four-year-old grandson build a “house” out of cardboard, chairs, a wheelbarrow, plastic child’s car, two pieces of plastic and a lot of imagination. He described what he was doing the whole time, explaining the need to keep raccoons out of his…
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What is the good–and sometimes better–point of view?
I’m married to a logical, reasonable man who grew up in a nuclear family with plenty of older sisters but not many other relatives. He likes quiet and order and is perfectly happy to spend time thinking and reading by himself. He had the (mis?)fortune to marry me–a woman who grew up in an Italian family devoted to relationships. We…
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