WOOL…I’M ALL WRAPPED UP IN IT

I have a new obsession. Perhaps this is coming at an unusual time as I’m a Minnesotan and we are finally at a place where we can safely say it will not snow again. (It won’t, right?) It just stormed and hailed and snowed last week. I don’t think our sweet MidCoast hearts can handle much more winter. So now that we’re all outside and doing yard work and walking the lakes and opening up windows to refresh the closed in darkness of our Hoth-like winters, I want to talk about this… Read More

Happy 50 Years of Marriage, Mom + Dad

Dear Mom and Dad, Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary! I love you two. So much. You have lived so much life and so much of it together. More together than apart. I wish I could go back in time even before I was born and see you two in high school in Chicago…before college and marriage and careers and kids (and, let’s face it…lots and lots of dogs) filled your lives. From the stories I hear about dad, high school was a testing ground…could he survive his teens while being both a cool,… Read More

Enough with the TV Already, UGH!

Our kid was being a jerk so we took away TV and this is what happened…

The Murder of Philando Castile & What is Justice

Philando Castile was killed. How is justice understood? My small, urban, Mennonite church has some amazing people with some radical ideas worth sharing.