by suelarkinsweems | Jun 16, 2017 | Mumblings and Misadventures
I first learned that magazines lie when I was thirteen. My sister and I would spend a couple weeks at my grandparents’ house each summer, and my Granny Helen always planned projects for us. We learned to sew, crochet, cross-stitch, dry flowers, and play the piano....
by suelarkinsweems | Dec 3, 2015 | Mumblings and Misadventures
I’ve been out three times this weekend with advent candles written specifically on my list and forgotten to look each time. Why? I’m distracted by being so full– full of lists, engagements, expectations. So many things call for my immediate attention. I have...
by suelarkinsweems | Nov 7, 2015 | Mumblings and Misadventures
We took this picture the day we crossed into South Carolina this summer. Allow it to stand in for a proper transition. (Yes, this WAS the best one.) I lost a month somewhere during the flood, with a week off school followed by two weeks of late starts. We are getting...
by suelarkinsweems | Jun 24, 2015 | Mumblings and Misadventures, On Military Life
The problem with living in paradise is well, the “living” part. There is so much I look past every day. At the end of a tour, I tend to speed between two extremes, sometimes multiple times daily. The first is a wave of panic that I have missed things followed by a...
by suelarkinsweems | Apr 3, 2015 | Mumblings and Misadventures
A little over a year ago, I visited a Korean church here on Okinawa with my friend. She explained that the service would be entirely in Korean, but she said not to worry, she would translate. She brought along a hymnal with the Korean on one page and the English on...
by suelarkinsweems | Mar 13, 2015 | Mumblings and Misadventures
I’ve seen both my parents break up fights. (And no, they were not fights between my sister and me. My little sister Becky could whoop me by the time she was about nine.) When I was in elementary school, I would walk with my mom over the hill between the middle school...
