[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 […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.] Back in the day when I was a spry and lively college coed, I never used the Prairie Path. I was afraid that I was too fat, too out of shape and too un-athletic […]
This is an entry I don’t know how to write… I’m waiting for a friend to die. A friend I haven’t spoken with in years. A friend who was once the center of my universe. A friend who knew me without explanation. A friend who inspired me. A friend who healed me and harmed me. […]
Ask any MK where home is and you’ll see an impressive display of pre-syncopal symptoms: the eyes roll back, sweat beads form, and sometimes an involuntary twitch appears. For most of my life, I’ve answered the question with a vague “it’s complicated” met by raised eyebrows and loss of interest. More recently, I’ve perfected a […]