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...
by Shari Dragovich | Mar 9, 2015 | Faith, Mothering
Yesterday morning I realized why I am grateful to be back in the ‘old-fashioned’ way of church. I was one of two parents responsible for overseeing our teenage sons as they prepared sausage biscuits in the church kitchen for a youth group fundraiser. We had to be at...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 17, 2014 | Home Front, Mothering, Nature, On Writing, Uncategorized
The leaves on the trees outside my picture window are trembling on their branches. Every so often their trembling turns violent as a gust of wind rushes through, causing some to lose their moorings, and slender trunks to bend and sway under the wind’s pressure. The...
by Shari Dragovich | Aug 4, 2014 | Home Front, Mothering, Superman & me, These Days
This morning my oldest son began two-a-day practices for the 2014 football season. I dropped him off at school—around back on the lower level closest to the locker rooms—at 7:20 a.m. The sun had barely climbed over the mountains, long shadows covered the freshly...
by Shari Dragovich | May 12, 2014 | Home Front, Mothering, Nature, Ribbon Box
I am working on a different blog post to share with you—hopefully later this week. These days preparing something worthy of your reading time takes weeks rather of days. But I wanted to share with you the poem my second son put in his card to me this Mother’s Day. No,...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 11, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Mothering, Uncategorized
We were sitting in the booth of a local coffee shop– just my second son and I–sipping our hot morning drinks, killing some time before I dropped him off at a day-long, Boy Scout service project. We were at one of my favorite coffee houses in Roanoke,...
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