Category Archives: Twins

Chantilly Lace

The first time I set foot in my new high school, on a bitter cold, January day in 1984, I despised everything about it. My family moved to the Washington D.C. area in the middle of my freshman year and everything I had come to love about life as a 9th grader in a sleepyContinue reading “Chantilly Lace”

Dock of the Bay

“In the early morning hours of day two, we made our way back to the water front to watch the sunrise over the Atlantic. The wedding set up from the evening before was long gone and a light fog covered the beach. Just like Brigadoon.”

Hushabye Mountain

The lyrics of one of my favorite songs from “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang,” sung by Dick Van Dyke’s character to his young children even as the tremendous weight of the world was on his shoulders. “Don’t you worry,” he tells them. “Things are gonna come right, somehow.”

In the Still of the Morning

“The days of young children waking up on Christmas morning at 6 a.m. in my home are long gone now. The young adults and middle teenagers are home for the holiday and my heart is full. They sleep.”

Age to Age

With all the beauty, energy, grace and talent she ever displayed in her younger years, Amy impressively performed song after song from her earliest work to the bubble-pop, catchy tunes that catapulted her across genres from Contemporary Christian music to Billboard Top 100.

The Time of our Lives

I took a few days off to head south and west with my younger daughter to the mountains of North Carolina. I don’t often have the chance to spend some time with just one of my teenagers in this way, so the idea was to make the most of the trip and make some memoriesContinue reading “The Time of our Lives”