Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 After we arrived home from the convention that July, I started to write a letter. Then I tore it up and threw it away. I waited. And waited. I didn’t hear a word from him. Complete radio silence. Blaring static. Nothing. I started to freak […]
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Young Love Letters – Part 5
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 My family headed to the FCM convention in Iowa, July 1994, arriving midweek. I was not happy to have missed half of the convention, especially since this was my last year of high school. I didn’t know how many more conventions I’d be able to attend once […]
Young Love Letters – Part 4
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Our letters continued through our junior year of high school and our friendship continued to grow as we got to know each other through a continual game of 20 questions. What’s your favorite music? Favorite class in school? Who do you hang out with? What do you do on […]
Young Love Letters – Part 3
In case you missed the previous installments… Part 1 Part 2 July 19-23, 1993 proved to be an exciting week. My family and four of my friends from our church clown troupe headed to the conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Sidenote- one of the four that attended with us was a very sweet guy whom […]
Love Under the Hood of my Car
I peered out the front windows, ivory sheers in right hand, forehead furrowed. In the street my tan car sat forlorn and sick. Wide shoulders hunched over inspecting, replacing, fixing. Hydraulics long gone, a jug of windshield fluid held the hood open. He should have been somewhere else. But he’d answered my distress call. Like […]