Noah is coming to buy my house, I think. It’s poured for most of the week, the sky weeping in torrents. An ark may have floated past. But the thing I’ve realized is this: I can see the rain from my desk right now. There are a bunch of things I miss about “normal” life, […]
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
They had to have been crazy. That was the only logical reason why those nice nurses told me I was ready to go home with my newborn baby. Sure, I had been preparing for him during the nine months he had grown inside my womb. I had taken classes and read all the books. But […]
In Praise of Family Stock Stories
You or some part of your family live out some cliché. Mine is the Appalachia-holler one. My grandfather was one of twelve kids growing up in Burrell Holler, NC, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His momma made legendary biscuits and pork gravy, and his feisty father nicknamed him “cat”. He left home as a teenager […]
The Warren & the World Vol 8, Issue 19
I hit a wall this week. The malaise of every day being essentially the same just washed over me and all I wanted to do was stay in bed all day. Prayer, time with God’s Word, and (real truth here) a Spotify playlist based on The Plain White Ts “Hey, There Delilah” helped me get […]
The Favorite Book
How do you choose a favorite, a best? Which would you pick before all the rest? In college, some friends of mine had a poster of Wassily Kandinsky’s “Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles” hanging up in their room. Anyone coming for a study break or evening chat was invited to look at the poster […]
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