by Melanie Winter | Jan 11, 2021 | Parenting, Politics, Religion
Jesus was a Jew. Not just by birth, but he had a deep and powerful relationship with God and his culture. He did not come to offer a new religion but to broaden a religion that had confused the law with the belief. He did not come to remove the Roman occupation of his...
by Melanie Winter | Sep 4, 2020 | Parenting, Politics, Religion
This spring, as the lockdown blanketed the air like pollen, the thick yellow nuisance that choked our lungs and stole our breath, I planted seeds in the garden. The bloom of the seeds, perfect and secure in the soil and lined in a row, gave hope to the fruit of...
by Melanie Winter | Aug 17, 2020 | Parenting, Politics, Religion
She is sitting in a chair, legs swinging, her face consumed by a big red frown. I’m quietly waiting for the water to boil in the kitchen, glancing over at her every few seconds. When the noodles are put in and I have seven minutes, I go to the chair across from her...
by Melanie Winter | May 21, 2020 | Parenting, Politics, Religion
Trying to mask fear or reroute it into anger will not change its existence. The only true way to combat fear is to embrace it and change. Why were desks so uncomfortable? We spent our education shifting around in those God-awful seats. The tingling in the legs...
by Melanie Winter | Mar 31, 2020 | Parenting, Politics
In a giant slip of sanity, I sat in the middle of a ripped bag of groceries. The eggs hit first as the rest came crushing down after it. The eggs, an essential part of any quarantine diet, and hard to come by, are at the bottom of whatever remaining food items I could...
by Melanie Winter | Mar 19, 2020 | Parenting, Politics, Religion
When will we get back to normal from the virus of 2020? The news people asked the president three times today, “when can we expect to go back to our lives?” He, of course, had to give the same answer all three times, “we simply don’t know.” I do know. I know what I...
