I hold my son’s son, both hands cupped against his wife’s warm abdomen. Her baby rolls toward my touch and she smiles down at me. Maternal delight mingled with innocence shines through her flush of expectancy. Love flows from each of us into the center of her...
All Are Welcome
There are many different varieties of trees on our 120-acre homestead, along with crops and brush, a bit of pasture and a spring-fed creek that flows year round from a pond that never freezes over. And don’t get me talking about the diversity of wildlife that thrives...
A God Who Wastes Nothing
The first time I sat with our son while he was experiencing a panic attack, everything in me wanted to wrap my arms around him and make it stop. All I could do was pray and wait for it to pass. Anxiety and panic are all too familiar to my son’s generation. It’s...
Ingrid Lochamire
Ingrid Lochamire is a former news reporter and award-winning feature writer for a regional news outlet. She “retired” from journalism to homeschool her four sons, now all graduated. Ingrid and her husband live in a 140-year-old farm house in northeast Indiana, where she shares “slice of life” experiences and reflections on her blog and elsewhere. She encourages others to capture and tell their life stories and speaks on the topic. Ingrid’s work has appeared on various online journals and websites, including Topology and The Baby Boomer Cafe. Her self-published book, One Man’s Work, includes stories from her father’s life as a soldier, small-town postmaster and child of The Great Depression. Ingrid’s essays are included in the anthology Grit & Grace, released in early 2019. Ingrid can be found at www.ingridlochamire.com, as well as on Instagram and Twitter.