by Shari Dragovich | Feb 17, 2014 | Faith, Home Front, Uncategorized
I know…Things have been rather quiet here In These Shoes. The funny thing is, these shoes haven’t been quiet at all! In fact, my shoes have been quite busy, especially my snow boots and my slippers. Two weeks ago to the day, my sister and toddling nephew came to...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 15, 2014 | Home Front
Sometimes there is crying after crossfit, but never before. But as I walked into the back stuff-dumping room of my box (Crossfit’s name for their gyms) the other day, there was a small gathering of women consoling one of our crying friends. “Shari, I need to tell you...
by Shari Dragovich | Dec 1, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, These Days
I am dragging boxes from the attic, trying to remember where I displayed each nativity set in my NC home and scanning my rooms for the same flat surfaces in this new place. None of my familiar table-tops are in good viewing areas in this home. I let out a sigh, my my...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 27, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box
The trees stand naked now–other than a few stubborn brown oak leaves insistent on hanging to their keeper, pretending they are Spanish moss on old Southern live oaks but looking more like soggy bits of brown paper bag scattered by a gusting wind and caught by...
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,...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 31, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Mothering, These Days
Tonight when all the little ghosts, goblins, Marvel superheroes, and minecraft blockheads are tripping from house to house threatening candy or else, my children (the three left who trick-or-treat, that is) will not be amongst them. No. I am not against Halloween as a...
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