- Early morning Sunrise Services, sitting outside, shivering in the early desert air
- Breakfast in the church fellowship hall
- Beautiful dresses sewn by my mother
- Dying eggs –the smell of vinegar, writing on eggs with a white crayon, leaving them in the dye a long time to get vivid colors
- Hiding and seeking the eggs
- The year my dad hid an egg in the rafters of the front porch and it wasn’t found ’til months later
- Easter hymns: “Hear the bells ringing they’re singing that we can be born againnnnnnn…”
- Imagining the wonder of the women who found the empty tomb
- Easter baskets with chocolate and jelly beans and plastic grass
Tag Archives: church
Places I Go Repeatedly
- The YMCA (work), Moline
- Village Inn, Moline
- 7-11/BP/Mother Hubbard’s, Silvis
- The East Moline swimming pool (also work)
- Silvis Hy-Vee
- Silvis Wal-mart
- Heritage Church, Rock Island
- Jimmy Johns, Moline
- Uncle Benny’s Gyros, Silvis
- Chili’s, Davenport
- Blue Grass Community Center
- Little Caesar’s Pizza, Moline