Eden and I are doing homework. He does a lot of it out loud because he has the family trait that he is brilliant verbally but writing things down is almost impossible. Sage has the same thing. I think I did, too. We are highly verbal, abstract, creative and terribly [...]

It is Christmas. Jude and I are not eating with family and friends, because it is a little too noisy and a little too bright. Someone is saving me a plate, they always do, because I spend many holiday meals with Jude. I don’t mind that much. Jude wanted to [...]

I want things to be a certain way. Like everyone, I have expectations. Every Christmas we go to the tree lot, and pick out the biggest tree I can possibly fit in our home. Short needles, no Scotch Pine. White lights, and the ornaments must be just so. Truth be [...]

We’re proud to be included in the OpenHouseChicago.org (OHC) events of this weekend. OHC is an outreach of the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and celebrates the rich architectural history of our fine city while encouraging people to “discover why design matters.” OHC this weekend features 150 some Chicago landmarks, all over [...]

(Tammy Perlmutter’s 31 Days of Community series, continued! See all the 31 Days articles as we post them here, as well as other articles about our Community Life.) Our house. 31 Days of Community Day 8 By the time I joined Jesus People, I had my fair share of tangles [...]

To see all the articles in this series, go either to Tammy’s own blog — Raggle Taggle — or to our own Wilson Station “Community Life” section. I’ve fallen behind in posting Tammy Perlmutter’s ongoing series, “31 Days of Community,” which is also posted on the just mentioned “Raggle Taggle” [...]

(Tammy Perlmutter’s 31 Days of Community series, continued!) 31 Days of Community Day 6 I entered community having experienced some degree of discipleship; my youth group leader my senior year of high school, a small-group leader in college, and social workers from the Christian agency that handled my case. These [...]

(Tammy Perlmutter’s “31 Days of Community” continued!) 31 Days of Community Day 5 When I was a teen, my mom would take my sister and me to a church that had a soup kitchen. We would help serve the food and clean up. Sometimes we would talk to the people. [...]

[I've been "re-journaling" some of my writings from a few years back. This one comes from March 6, 2009.] Carol Elaine Durkin Trott, my beloved, is today being routinely scanned for any recurrences of her thyroid cancer back in 2000. Her thyroid was removed then, but every so often she [...]

Another post from Tammy Perlmutter’s Raggle Taggle blog in her 31 Days of Community series… This is part of a series on my experience living in an intentional Christian community, Jesus People USA. I had lived in Christian homes, gone to Christian camp, attended Christian school, youth group, Christian college, [...]