Posts by Julie Summa
Where is Your Place of Safety?
When did the coronavirus pandemic become real for you? Perhaps it was when schools closed, someone you knew contracted the virus, when you couldn’t visit your grandma at the care facility, when you canceled a spring break trip, or the church buildings became empty on Sunday. Or maybe the news of the soaring death tolls sounded the alarm. For me and my husband, it was the weekend of March 14-15. The weekend news was painting a grim picture and the…
Showering with a Sliver
If you’re a soap user like me, you can relate to this age-old problem. . . showering with a sliver. Yep. . . that small, slippery remnant of soap that lingers in your soap dish way past its time. I often use a sliver of soap until the last possible moment when it melts down to a one-dimensional, flat-earth slice. That’s when the problems begin. No matter how hard I scrub, a sliver produces hardly any lather. I’m never sure…