Shannon Costello

CJ is an SU fan, which is fine with me- I get a kick out of watching the games.
There is a player who is the unofficial leader of the team. He is not necessarily known for scoring tons of points, but he is great at things like passing to the guy who [...]

I took the bottle out of the pantry to oil the parchment paper for the pizza and now the cap is gone.
I moved the bread machine and the knife block and everything else.  I searched the smelly depths of the trashcan- twice. I even got down on the floor and looked at the counters at [...]

Our last small group study was about peace, then the sermon was from Matthew 20, about the vineyard workers that expected to be paid more because they worked all day.  We are all like those angry workers, the pastor said, all indignant because we didn’t get more than we deserve.  Spanish church was about the [...]

I had decided that my lack of understanding of economics and trade and agriculture interfered with my story line in my (ahem) novel, so I was in the library hunting for a book that would rectify this weakness when I bumped into this one.  The book is about a huge corporation known as the United [...]

My grief over not having children is, to me, comparable to the grief of losing someone I care about to death.  In this case, I just don’t know who I lost.
Pastors love the story behind “It is Well with my Soul”.  Of course I’ve heard it a bunch of times, but it still made me [...]

I’m afraid this blog is deteriorating into a journal, meaning that I’m using it as a way to think through things as opposed to writing about things I have already thought through.
This abstract/concrete stuff may be a way of talking about how people look at things, and you have to look at them a certain [...]

A rainbow is formed by the separation of light waves passing through water. Very concrete and predictable in that sense.  But it is also a symbol of hope.  And it’s beautiful.  I was going to write a dialogue contrasting the abstract and the concrete, and I was going to start with rainbows.  Life seems like [...]

Sometimes I realize how profoundly shocking it is that I am childless- a long-held assumption of mine that may be just wrong.
I’m writing about it now because I don’t want my sense of fulfillment to depend on motherhood.  Getting to that point is a process, of course, and I’m hardly there yet.
The most common conversation [...]