by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 26, 2012 | mercy
The house is quiet now. Only the sound of towels tossing in the dryer and the tick of the clock on the mantel. We have gathered up the left-behinds (only one pair of hoop earrings and a tiny sock, so far.) And now my love and I are sitting side-by-side in our chairs...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 21, 2012 | mercy
Thanksgiving is a holiday devoted to food.Well, to thanks-giving, technically. But it centers around food. People complain about this sometimes. In fact, people complain because just about everything we do centers around food. We “do lunch” when we need to...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 19, 2012 | mercy
Several years ago, I called my friend who worked just down the hall, and I got her voice mail. (I don’t know why I didn’t walk down the hall to talk to her. Voice mail was new in our office. Maybe I wanted to use it.) Anyway, Darlene’s voice mail...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 15, 2012 | mercy
In the Dicken’s novel, Great Expectations, young Pip never pays his mounting bills. Instead, he organizes them neatly into categories, stacks, and tallies. Once that is done, he feels he has fulfilled his responsibilities, and he is off to the haberdasher for...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 8, 2012 | mercy
This week I’m in Kansas City, Missouri, attending the Heart of America Christian Writers Network conference. (Note to the bad guys: my deputy-sheriff husband and the dog are both at home. Don’t bother breaking in.) The investment in conference fees, hotel...
