by suelarkinsweems | Apr 23, 2013 | Mumblings and Misadventures
I’ve spent the last ten weeks training for a series of half-marathons, calculating my mileage, planning routes, gathering information and support. As stories poured in from Boston, I am numb. Those last minutes of a race are exhilarating—to see the finish line, to...
by suelarkinsweems | Mar 5, 2013 | Mumblings and Misadventures
Every weekend, a Sunday demon descends on our house, determined to make us curse our way out the door for services at church. This past Sunday was no different. We had a busy day ahead, as we had committed to go to one chapel to pray over a family during a child...
by suelarkinsweems | Feb 5, 2013 | Mumblings and Misadventures
Linking up with Amber’s series on concrete abstractions. Today’s prompt: Box She says to write about boxes, and I recoil. I follow a sailor around the globe, and boxes dominate the hard moments of my life, rife with difficult goodbyes and rocky beginnings....
by suelarkinsweems | Jan 10, 2013 | Mumblings and Misadventures
The weirdest thing happened when I came to Okinawa. Most of my new friends have older children—middle school, high school, college age, and *gulp* adults. I don’t have any preschoolers for the first time in twelve years. I can feel our family teetering on the edge of...
by suelarkinsweems | Dec 8, 2012 | Mumblings and Misadventures
Well, the bugs here understand English, but the exterminators do not. It’s a problem. Part of the joy? trial? of living here is that the bugs are… healthy. In our kitchen, we have little brown bugs. They aren’t getting into food (so far), but one or two scurry...
by suelarkinsweems | Nov 5, 2012 | Mumblings and Misadventures
Well, snatch me bald-headed, it’s November. How did that happen? November means that we have been in Okinawa for four months, it is National Novel Writing Month, and Thanksgiving is looming large. I already need a nap. Four months into this tour and I am beginning to...
