Now. Go. Do it. Last weekend we left our kids with my cousin and her best friend and trekked south down I-71 to Hocking Hills for three days and two nights with close friends. On the way we stopped for breakfast and I ate all the things at Bob Evans. Sorry, Lodi residents, about theContinueContinue reading “Leave the kids. Get away.”
Author Archives: Sarah M. Wells
Mountains and Valleys
This has been the longest week ever. I’m convinced that there is scientific evidence out there to support my observation. Monday, January 10? When was that? Wasn’t that three weeks ago? No. It was only four days ago. Until the researchers have had time to analyze the data, we’ll just take it as cold, hardContinueContinue reading “Mountains and Valleys”
The Middle Ground
My latest blog post for Off the Page on the roots of racism and what we ought to do about “The Others” was shared on Wednesday. It was difficult to write this article because the temptation for me and I suspect other Christian writers is to craft the I-was-lost-but-now-I’m-found message, I was bad but now I’mContinueContinue reading “The Middle Ground”
Dying Mom Stories and New Year’s Resolutions
As a reader and editor for River Teeth, one of my major biases was dying mom stories. Writers think just because their loved one has died or might die or is dying, they ought to write about her. It’s sad. It’s hard. It’s life changing. So we write dying mom stories. The trouble with the vastContinueContinue reading “Dying Mom Stories and New Year’s Resolutions”
Merry Christmas!
All throughout the month of December, I considered what “Emmanuel: God With Us” has meant and means for me during this advent season. Here’s my final thoughts on the matter. Have a Merry Christmas, everyone!
Advent Day 24: Legacy
Each year I write in what I refer to, ever so creatively, as the Christmas Book. It’s an unlined journal with a green velvet and gemstone cover I started keeping the year Elvis was born. At the time I must have had more time on my hands because I would write as the advent seasonContinueContinue reading “Advent Day 24: Legacy”
Advent Day 23: Recap and Wrap-Up
Friends, it’s two days until Christmas. Last night, a puppy slept on my lap and I watched A Very Murray Christmas because massages are relaxing, so no Christmas gifts were wrapped and no cinnamon ornaments were tied with little hooks and instead of some anecdote-turned-devotional you are getting this uninspired blog post. Earlier yesterday, I exchangedContinueContinue reading “Advent Day 23: Recap and Wrap-Up”
Advent Day 22: Lobster Holiday
There were a few years after I moved out of elementary school when my younger brothers’ holiday parties had strict rules about the religiosity of the celebrations. Nothing could even slightly echo Jesus’s birth. To be fair, I’m pretty sure it was also a Menorah-Free Zone. Children could make snowmen, snowflakes, and reindeer out of candy canesContinueContinue reading “Advent Day 22: Lobster Holiday”
Advent Day 21: Winter Solstice
In November, our lips trembled with the breath of winter etched in frost across the windows. We gazed at dawn’s arrival casting bands of icy glitter on brass and copper oak leaves holding tight to frozen branches, as if they could stop the turn of seasons, suspend the spin of Earth around the sun, butContinueContinue reading “Advent Day 21: Winter Solstice”
Advent Day 20: Candle of Love?
On the fourth Sunday of Advent, we light the candle of love. In the glow of that candle shines the suspension of a faculty member at Wheaton for wearing a hijab, the president of Liberty University calling Christian students to take up arms against “those Muslims,” potential candidates for President competing to see who can keepContinueContinue reading “Advent Day 20: Candle of Love?”
Sarah Marie Wells 