Mar 27, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
Overflowing. It’s an apt description of Sunday’s brunch, during which we six gathered for the first time in way too many months. Or has it been years? I am afraid that just might be the case. You see, Vickie, Suzann and I have been friends since elementary...
Mar 25, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
Is there anything more wonderful than spending a long weekend with treasured friends? It’s what we’ve been up to these last few days, and the visit started with this glorious walk around the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. With this as a beginning point,...
Mar 19, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
This is one of my favorite places on Earth: This is how it looks through the prettiest and most pleasant season of the year, the time in which it would be most delightful to sit, read, eat, entertain, nap, and generally hang out there: The bagboy at Publix told me...
Mar 14, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
My husband watches a lot of sports on television. Me, not so much. This truth became significant when we were building a house several years ago. The architect’s plans included a “keeping room” that placed a small seating area adjacent to the...
Mar 11, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
I had hardly hit “post” on my commitment to 30 Days of Grace II when my phone binged with a text. Hello from Enockson! Thanks for all you do! it said. In an instant, my eyes filled with tears. This special text had come to me from Haiti, where 8-year-old...
Mar 10, 2012 | 30 Days of Grace
It has been a tough couple of weeks. It has been a tough few months. That’s what I spent most of the day thinking, as I drove from appointment to appointment yesterday, greatly frustrated that my long-awaited day off was being eaten alive by things I...
