When I found out my dad has cancer, I was suddenly hit with the reality that there is a lot that I don’t know. For one, I didn’t know what myeloma was — all I knew was that “oma” meant “super scary.” But even after learning that it was a type of bone marrow cancer and that chances … Continue reading →

 Sometimes I put chocolate chips on Legos that look like toilets. Karah has this wild and imaginative spread on a table in the laundry/storage room — which is where I keep the chocolate chips (in theory this was supposed to reduce the amount of chocolate chips I ate, in reality it just increases the amount … Continue reading →

  Love is reflective, like a mirror: we instinctively reflect the love that we receive. Can I tell you something about loving humans? Contrary to 80’s pop sentiment, they will give you up, let you down, run around and desert you. Tears, goodbyes, hurt and/or lies guaranteed. We know this, but we are good forgetters … Continue reading →

Somebody had what must have been the equivalent of a bunny nightmare last night. Maybe it was an imagined horde of small children or a loud noise in bodily form — whatever it was, the repeated thump of his hind leg against the cage floor woke me up and I went out to check on … Continue reading →

 Remember. This is something God asks us to do. A lot. It appears everywhere in the Bible. Remember the Sabbath. Remember Jesus’ Death and Resurrection through the Eucharist. Remember how God parted the Jordan River, the Red Sea. Remember. I think it means I’m not the only one prone to forgetting. Just before they enter the Promised … Continue reading →