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The delight of one-on-one
No, this is not a post about basketball, though our family is in the midst of a bracket challenge. Mom is just about to sink to the bottom. Virginia let me down…but I digress. I remember when we had...
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Send off or shove off
Saturday mornings are typically for sleeping in at the Wilsons – at least for the females in the house. This morning was a bit different since one of our girls was going on her first church youth group...
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Alongside choice
This past weekend was a milestone event for my husband Mark and his career. He has stepped aside from the role of chairman of his company and is ramping down the time that he spends at work over the...
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Race matters and holy discomfort
This blog has been percolating in my heart and mind for weeks. Given the string of painful and disturbing images flashing before our eyes from Ferguson and Baltimore and beyond, today seems to be the...
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A lot of moving parts
It has been a bit of a crazy time in the life of the Wilson family and thus very little time for me to write. The thoughts and ideas keep crashing up on the shores of my mind and heart, but there is...
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Dear future daughter-in-law
Here’s a few things you need to know if…or so begins a current overplayed pop song. I’ve substituted daughter-in-law for husband, because this is dedicated to Madeleine, aka Maddy, my very soon to be...
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A random blog
It has been over a month since I last took time to put into print the swirling thoughts that dance through my heart and mind. It is not due to a lack of dance partners but a result of very few chunks...
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Being trill
For mother’s day, I received a public Facebook message from our eldest child. He referred to me as “trill”. After I consulted my handy google urban dictionary to determine if this was an insult or...
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Best days
Along with my girls, I enjoy listening to Taylor Swift. My very favorite of her songs has nothing to do with romance, heartbreak or drama. The Best Day is a sweet and poignant song written from the...
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Mirroring a soul
On the heels of my Best days post, this one idea from the Mothering and Daughtering book persistently whispers into my consciousness. One of the major tasks as mother or father is to mirror the soul of...
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Writing
“…looks like I don’t know what is on my mind until I go to writing to you.” Burley Coulter in A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry We all need a place and space to make sense of our lives and the world...
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When everything becomes “a thing”
Warning: I may sound old and scroogey and like a killjoy in this blog, and I would truly love to hear the thoughts and ideas of others around this topic. With one son recently married and another very...
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Two perspectives from another generation
I got a lot of feedback on the last blog dealing with social media and life events. I loved hearing from peers as well as from a younger generation on this topic. With permission, two young friends...
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Three grace encounters
A test A Sunday interaction. Concern and confusion about how the world has changed, the morals of the young people, the stubborn uncooperative ways of her very own body. So much shifting and switching...
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Words do matter
I was sitting on my couch the other day and mindlessly watching photos of our family scroll through our computer screen. One of the signs that we encountered on our 2013 trip to China floated by. It...
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Discovering that which fills
One of my favorite hymn refrains proclaims the beautiful words, “it is well with my soul”. Though often played at funerals, it seems that this posture is just as critical to the living as the dead. For...
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Partings
Flying up to meet the soon to be other half of my boy’s family. A gracious invitation to stay the night. Wonderings from both sides I am sure. Do we go to the back door or walk around to the front?...
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The gift of normal
On October 17, 2014, our older daughter took a terrifying fall from a tree in our yard. That story is chronicled here. The anniversary of this event came and was not at all lost on me. But I could not...
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Light more candles
In mid-December, our home was part of an annual neighborhood Christmas tour. Over two days and 12 hours, several thousand people meandered through our home. The days leading up to this event were...
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Christopher
This morning I had an agenda. It involved working on a long term writing project and making specific plans around the wedding of our middle son, Chris. As I sat down ready to forge ahead, this caught...
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