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I am wearing red today* because it was Mom’s favorite color. Mom Slabach always said she didn’t understand why Christian conservative folks didn’t think women should wear read. Yes, red was a color often worn by harlots, she knew. She’d been reminded of that many times. She didn’t care if that’s what harlots wore, because she…
My stressful day in ICU was about to become even more stressful. My patient was dying. The doctors, who are taught to help their patients live, had reckoned with the fact that it was just a matter of time. I realized my biggest problem was not the patient or the doctors. My biggest problem was…
Those cats and kittens We stopped to visit friends on our way back to Halifax County the other Sunday evening. Amid the hugs and hellos, I noticed the kittens. Eleven kittens, to be exact. We picked them up and scratched their heads as they arched their backs and purred. It was a cat lover’s paradise….
I have never lost a child and I know for certain that I have absolutely no clue about what it’s like to experience such horrible grief. But if I ever do, my friend Shelley is one of the first people I would call. That’s because Shelley is real even as she writes about her raw…
It’s been quite the summer. We’ve prayed over secrets and said more goodbyes than hellos. A few weeks ago I told a friend that I’ve sat on so many of my kids’ secrets this summer that I had trouble remembering what information was classified from whom. Sometimes I wasn’t sure which one needed prayers the most….
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