Visiting from The Daily Retort?   Welcome! Blogging has been a huge part of my life for the past nine years and I am most happily addicted to it.   I write about laughter, pain, healing, and all the spaces between.  As a pastor’s wife living on gorgeous Roanoke Island (about ten minutes from the Atlantic), I am in absolute photographer’s heaven. …

Usually when I get home after church on Sunday, I am absolutely wiped out since I get up at 5 am and arrive at church at 8 am for band rehearsal followed by Sunday school and the morning service.  When Steve, Sarah, and I finally make it back home, I fix an easy, speedy lunch and then head off for the most blissful event of…

I talked with the vet a couple of hours ago and her exact words were, “That little guy of yours scared me to death; I thought for sure he wasn’t going to pull through this!” She went on to explain once again that the only reason she was even willing to prescribe the hard-on-liver meds that she did was because the only other option was…

Truthfully, I woke up this morning prepared for the worst, because over the past week, the first glimpses of Snowy coming out of his kennel each morning have been more tear-producing than just about any other sight.…