Our little mountainside town is all but abandoned for the winter. Schools have closed for two months, houses are locked and empty, and many shops are closed until sun comes up in a warmer…
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Yesterday, in case we hadn’t had enough of the mountain monkey overpopulation, we had an hour long adventure that began with our neighbor K calling my phone from downstairs and saying breathlessly, “Make sure…
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It’s October, that magical time of year that makes thousands flock from the planes to our town to hike rocky paths, see the snow-capped peaks nearby, and drink steaming chai in cool fall air…
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The last time I posted was three days before our daughter’s birth over three months ago. Ha!… Our weeks stretched into months as the days whirled by in a frenzy, we adjusted to child…
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Tonight after we read our three books and I sang our nightly song to you, you stood up and walked yourself to your own “big boy” bed. You climbed in and got snuggled up…
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Today was the first time any of us have been “admitted”, after Little Man downed half a bottle of my cough syrup at 6:45am, and even after vomiting several times a half hour later,…
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That rare moment when the universe perfectly aligns and I get to watch the sunrise… alone. Never did I think I would yearn so desperately for time alone. The introvert that’s 55% of me…
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A torrential downpour on the tin roof beckons us into Good Friday. It seems appropriate as we remember the One who gave up absolutely everything for us to be know Him. I imagine the devastation of Jesus’…
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“I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your strong right hand holds me securely.” (Ps 63:7-8) The sun’s powerful rays have just catapulted over the ridge to…
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Our train snakes through the plains, scattered with fields of crops and brightly colored huts, we make our way to the foothills where it’s still build-a-fire, dreary kind of wintery weather. But not for…
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For weeks I had this recurring urge to drop everything, run up the rocky path to the nearest road, catch a taxi down that nauseating switch-back road off of this crazy mountain and never…
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The sun came up over the southern ridge at 7am, but Tyler and I were watching it from 5:45. Little Man woke up at 5:30 and I helped him back asleep—a huge victory and…