Huff Expressions

Today my Dad would be 70. He died in 1993, having just turned 54.

May I share a Kentucky morning with you? It is Saturday, mid-August and I am quiet on our patio swing praying and thinking, trying to see and hear what matters.

…raise kids?
I dunno — never done it.
Why are you doing it now?
Because we have two sons and we love them.
Doing it without experience?
Yep.
Strange.
Yep.
Having children is as real and life-intrinsic as breathing.  It challenges everything about you, requires more than you ever dreamed, and teaches you a thousand lessons about yourself.  It pays back far more, […]

Yes, Jane is a Great Aunt, and has been for nearly 20 years.  Of course before that she was already a great Aunt.  And before that…

Families are made of faces. Faces we assume will always be there. People we know are part of us, we of them. Those faces are too often far away, but when we see them up close we know them and own them as ours.