Easter

Is waiting for you on the shelf — Elena rubbed her forehead. It wasn’t her eyes. The egg was real. It stood in the middle of the carton like an abandoned child in a shady glade. Elena looked at the inscription on the carton. A MAGIC EGG. What the heck? Will these Easter lunacies ever end? Never mind…

March Easter visits kill me. — It just so happens, I got out of bed the wrong side, having thrown the covers asunder, only to step barefooted on a chip of dog bone, causing me to limp and curse my way to the bathroom. Standing over the bowl, I remember how my urine once flowed like…

What are your harbingers of Spring? — I have lived in various parts of the country — mostly the northern tier of states — and rejoice in the various spring signifiers. This has been a long, dark and cold lead-up to spring, even here in Oregon. Today is a harbinger of more days to come, a bright…

When I was a child my mother and I would go shopping each year for my new Easter outfit. This was a somewhat daunting task because I did not like shopping. Every year I would be entranced by the Easter bonnets. My mother would try to talk me out of…

Matthew 27:46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[a] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). Oh the pain He must have Felt as they Hung him There A crown of thorns Placed upon His head, Hammered…

The endangered Pygmy bunny is the cutest thing on Earth, but we are losing them to extinction Roaring Rivers Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD. Happy Sad Easter Every Bunny! Spring is a time of rebirth. We celebrate because Earth/God does one’s very best, despite our meddling, to have life create life again. The Pygmy bunny in the Columbia Basin of Washington state is probably the cutest bunny rabbit you could ever…