With the start of a new year comes the renewal of my passion to be an advocate for MKs and missionaries. To that end, I’d like to begin a series of posts (which may not be sequential) entitled “The Lies MKs Believe.” My hope is that it will shed some light on behaviors that can […]
Bear with me−there’s going to be a gloriously profound conclusion to this post… I’m not sure how we got on the topic. One minute, I was the teacher listening to students talking in the back seat of my car, waiting for a conversational opening that would allow me to pounce, all cheetah-like, on an innocent […]
Looking for a post about goofy Christmas memories and yuletide merriment? I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong blog this time. I’m a big fan of Christmas—always have been. Even as I write, safely tucked into the armchair in my mom’s Canadian living room, listening to classical music and the crackling logs in the fireplace […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) I’m a good little MK, which means that my understanding of American football is slim. When I was in high school in Germany, before the days of home satellite TVs and the internet, my […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) It was about this time last year that I wrote a blog bemoaning my “Single Girl’s Tree,” a Christmas tree so neat, symmetrical and sterile that it seemed as foreign to my life as, […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) (For those of you waiting for my decision on the life-altering dilemma facing me, I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait one more week! Your prayers and input have meant the world to […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) My purpose in writing these blog entries varies from week to week. Sometimes, I post them merely for entertainment value. Sometimes I have a point to make or a question to ask. Mostly, I […]
It’s a common theory that a woman’s voice matures around 30 years of age. That puts mine well past its expiration date, and I live in fear of becoming the lady who used to sit behind me in church and sing “Just As I Am” with so much warbling vigor that her vibrato covered an […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) There’s something romantic about the notion of time capsules. They provide a sort of poor man’s time travel—a leap back into an age and context when life was much different. I wonder what I […]
In memory of Marilyn June Scribner June 9, 1930 – December 24, 2021 I reluctantly headed out to a women’s gathering at Blanchard Alliance Church shortly after I moved back to the States eleven years ago. I’m a introvert, so the thought of stepping into a circle of well-established social connections was daunting. But I […]