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Motherhood
Wait To feel the first flutterings Of life Wait To push To be cut open To bleed To heal To hold And nourish Your own heart Wait To eat To shower To pee To sleep To dream Wait For your heart To speak To...
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Rodalena Recipes: Potato Salad
So, you’re thinking ya wanna barbecue some ribs, maybe some burgers, or some chicken. You’re walking through the grocery willy-nilly, mindlessly putting Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit BBQ sauce in your...
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Gentleness
“And be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake, hath forgiven you.” ~Ephesians 4:32 I’m scared that gentleness is dying. I think it’s taken one too...
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Awe, and Stillness
Stand in awe and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. ~Psalm 4:4 Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth....
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Rodalena Rants: Walmart Sucks
I had to go to Walmart today. I only go if I have No Other Choice. (Time was of the essence: when you’re a one-car family, logistics can be a nightmare. Sure enough, the shopping gods think it’s...
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Rodalena Recipes: Pecan Pie
It’s π Day! I love pie. It’s so much better than cake, mainly because of the gigantic hunks of fruit or nuts, and the miracle of a good crust, which blows gloppy icing or frosting out of the water...
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What the Rain Can Do
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones Rain’s coming. There’s thunder...
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New Year’s Flexibilities
People seem to feel the need to be resolute and hell-bent on being steadfast and immovable in their attempts to make a new year a better year. Oddly enough, few people seem to keep their New Year’s...
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How to Talk to a Former Fundamentalist
I left the world of fundamental Christianity some time ago. Many, well, okay, most of the people I knew from that time in my life seem to assume that means I have either become an atheist (I have not),...
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