EDITOR’S NOTE: Carolyn’s reflection on summertime from back in 2016 seems like a good place to return during this strange summer of 2020. I remember loving summer as a child, despite the intense Texas heat. It wasn’t that I didn’t love school. I did. But there was something magical about that long period of freedom […]

I awoke the other morning to the almost frantic chatter of birds outside my bedroom window.  They are the earliest sign of spring.  They are no longer sleeping, but are busy at work enjoying the full length of the day.  All this fluster of activity in the bird world reminds me it is time to […]

To my graduate. You were three weeks old when I finally summoned the courage to head to the coffee shop. I dreaded trying to make sense of what had happened, but I wanted you to grow into a man of depth, of compassion, of character. In order to love this broken beautiful world, we first […]