by Shari Dragovich | Jan 19, 2018 | Faith, These Days, Uncategorized
Only hours (minutes?) into my New Year’s Resolution and I’m failing. Of course I am. Why would I think otherwise? Living present to the mundane is anything but natural. Anything but automatic. Eating healthy and exercising regularly is easier for me than noticing the...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 13, 2018 | Faith, These Days, Uncategorized
Well, then. Here we are. Out with the old, in with the new. Except it never cleans up quite so neatly, does it? Still. Long-limbs Lenore was on to something that New Year’s Eve in Times Square with Forrest and Captain Dan. “Don’t you just love New Year’s?” she says to...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 4, 2017 | Faith, On Writing, Reviews, These Days, Uncategorized
Tomorrow morning I leave for Grand Rapids, MI for the Breathe writing conference. I am presenting two sessions—my first time presenting at a writing conference. I should be working on the final edits and notes for my second presentation. But instead, my eyes landed on...
by Shari Dragovich | Mar 13, 2017 | Faith, Mothering, On Running, Uncategorized
I am running again. Late last week I ran on the greenway of our little city. It follows alongside the Roanoke River that weaves like discarded ribbon through Roanoke’s kaleidoscope of neighborhoods and businesses. On Saturday, I ran Chestnut Ridge Trail; a 5.4 mile...
by Shari Dragovich | Dec 1, 2016 | Faith, Home Front, Mothering, These Days, Uncategorized
I am hanging ornaments on my Christmas tree. It is the fake one I set up in the front of my home. There is another tree—a real one my family and I drove up Bent Mountain earlier in the morning to cut from Slaughter’s Christmas Tree Farm (funny name for a Christmas...
by Shari Dragovich | Apr 26, 2016 | Faith, Mothering, Uncategorized
I was sitting in the second tier of seats, several rows back, near an EXIT door in a smallish auditorium room. It was the last day of Calvin’s Festival of Faith and Writing held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Myself and two writing friends were attending...
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