When I signed up for our church’s glasses ministry, I suddenly realized I’d never been on a missions trip before. Then my husband reminded me we painted an orphanage in Juarez, Mexico, once. I’m not sure that counted. We stayed at an American friend’s house with a shower, and crossed the border daily. This time, we headed up the San…
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Life with a Blind Dog: Watch out!
I didn’t realize for a long time that we had a blind dog, nor that I had become a seeing-eye human. Sure, she fell off the walkway a couple times and stumbled over the curb, but for the most part Suzie trotted beside me as easily as she always had. The fact we walked a broad path around Spring Lake,…
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Life with a Blind Dog–How Come She’s Hungry?
My dog Suzie is blind. It seemed to come on quickly. From the time I first questioned whether she might be having a seeing problem to her diagnosis–two days. But in hindsight, it crept up and fooled us for a good three months before the dog ophthalmologist pronounced her stone-cold blind. How could I not have suspected? Why didn’t I…
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Traveler’s Tales: The Thrill of Polyglots
I grew up in a community of multi-lingual people, or polyglots. My own mother, born in Sicily, spoke Italian as her first language and occasionally explained things to her mother in her native tongue. Our family babysitter was from Yugoslavia and routinely argued with her husband in various Slavic languages. I went to school with children who spoke Spanish and…
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Harry Potter and the End of (my daughter’s) Childhood
A girl’s childhood parallels the release of Harry Potter’s books–and how we lived through it!
Radical thinking, or not?
One of the most important books I read in 2011 was David Platt‘s Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Radical has plenty of concepts to chew over, but the one that is sticking with me today has to do with our willingness to come to Jesus and die. I’ve long wondered what it was like to be…
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