• Poems

    Time

    The good may endthat the best may come.All great joyis not yet gone. Another day,another time,I welcome thingsthat are now mine. Mine to bear,mine to hold,mine to make,and mine to mold. The responsibilitythat God givesis all the same to us–to live! To welcome times,coming fast;the good may end,but the best will last.

  • Essays

    Little by Little

    I think many of the important things in life are done little by little. I enjoy watching Samuel grow little by little. Every day he does something new, something funny, and something cute. (In addition to a lot of other things, of course!) I like when he tries to say a new word for the first time, or points out a truck we’ve read about in a book but never seen before in real life. I like when he imitates something Brian and I have said in the past. Sometimes Samuel wants me to do something I’m not strong enough to do, so I tell him that Daddy is strong…