Category Archives: Epiphanies and Meditations

The Inner Cinderella

Posted on April 26, 2009 by K

After I read Marilyn’s comment the other day, I looked up the now famous Boyle “make-over.”  Yeah—everybody’s got a right to change her hair color.  But what distressed me was the new expression on her face in that picture – … Continue reading →

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Saturday

Posted on April 25, 2009 by K

HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading →

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Queen for a day

Posted on April 21, 2009 by K

 I remember, one year, being cheerful audience at our local quilt guild’s big quilt show.  They presented the Quilt Most Likely to Knock Your Eyes Out  to a wonderful piece of work: elegant, complex and demanding in design and stitchery, … Continue reading →

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More slight significance

Posted on April 8, 2009 by K

And there was this time when I had been booked to be the key-note rock star author at a children’s literature conference in Oregon—they flew me there, met me with a shuttle.  Oh, yeah. “This way, Ms. Randle.”  And then … Continue reading →

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The oddness of small fame

Posted on April 6, 2009 by K

           One time when we went to the library, G overheard one librarian at the circulation say to another, “Kristen Randle just entered the building.”  (blink, blink – laugh).  That was back when I’d just been … Continue reading →

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The Prodigal Son

Posted on April 4, 2009 by K

I hate this story.  Parable.  I hate it.  It’s only found in Luke—rather than being repeated three times in the other gospels; maybe that’s why I’m so daring as to say such a thing.  But I do.  Hate it.  And not … Continue reading →

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The Hard Way

Posted on April 3, 2009 by K

            I’m so antsy today.  Why, why, why?  Maybe because I couldn’t fall asleep last night—so I did the treadmill routine at midnight?  Or because the stinking wind is blowing knife chill, roaring in the metal … Continue reading →

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Yeah, yeah –

Posted on April 1, 2009 by K

I didn’t do an April fools’ day post.  I figured, the world is so weird just sort of normally these days, nobody’d notice if I did.  Maybe next year.  When I’m skinnier.

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Aa soo: Spring

Posted on March 31, 2009 by K

This was a week ago Sunday. The lovely Chaz.  Still up for negotiation. Fresh from church. Woman with butterfly sleeves and jonquil. Woman in freezing cold, standing up after several moments of crouching with flower.  Legs locked. This is an … Continue reading →

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In the last bit of March

Posted on March 30, 2009 by K

Today: Snow has long since worn its romance value thin.  The horses think so, too.  But as I came home this morning from the feeding and grabbed the paper off the snowy driveway—all tucked into its red plastic bag against … Continue reading →

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