by Lisa-Jo | Sep 6, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Family
Home is where you don’t have to care if you have morning hair. Home is where you can slurp the last of your soda and suck every delicious drop of juice-running-down-your-elbows deliciousness out of a ripe nectarine. Home is where you can wear your PJs all day...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 26, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
Click on the link below (twice) to download and listen to an audio recording of me reading today’s post. Once it’s loaded you can come back to this page to read along. My Zululand; My Birthday Under the boughs of the mango groves in the heat of the hot,...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 16, 2010 | Faith, Family
We dip and dive between hot, sticky air and cool, blue water surfacing only for pizza and friendship. Kids in matching swimsuits and chlorine stained eyes grin like guppies and their parents lean into the water and let it wash the week from off tired shoulders. The...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 11, 2010 | Family, South Africa, Travel
I remember the exact moment I loved the woman my dad married, when the grieving years for my mom had passed. It was during brunch. The day after their wedding. All the kids had come over to join them for a meal. She had two and my dad had us three. The spring sunshine...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jul 30, 2010 | Family, Kids, MOB, Raising Boys
Tucked between the layers of sand, dirt, mud, and sweat. Hidden deep down where he might forget, but you never would. Stashed in the corners of a conversation dominated by a whole lot of “no.” Jammed into his gym bag, under sweaty T-shirts and knee pads....
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 27, 2010 | Faith, Family, South Africa, Travel
He made me buzz off all his locks yesterday. I thought I would be heart broken. But instead I discovered my brother. Underneath all those curls, there was Luke staring back at me. All the strong, sturdy lines of a face I’ve known since 1981. There it was today,...
