by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL
In November Mom married my stepdad. In December we moved a hundred miles up the east coast from Miami. In January I transferred into Stuart Middle School in the middle of eighth grade. I thought I might be due a little peace—not the fight that broke out my first day... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 23, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays, Our Lady of the Hills Camp
The plane set down on the Miami International Airport tarmac. Brakes grabbed below my feet, tamping down our speed. White bulbs winked along the asphalt as the plane hurled forward. But there were no taxiway lights for the sharp turn my life was about to take.... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays, Our Lady of the Hills Camp
My heart thumped faster as the guy in the Our Lady of the Hills Camp T-shirt rounded the van onto a tree-canopied dirt road. My folks’ divorce last year had ushered in TV, telephone, and air conditioning. Now my dream of going to boarding school—even if it was only... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays
I’m a thirteen-year-old roller rink rat in Miami, Florida, careening around the oval with all the coolness a Catholic school seventh grader could scrape up. I was fast and zit-free, and it was going to be a good day. I whizzed past Steven, a spindly, freckled... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
Growing up Catholic, I would have lumped attending a house church with selling flowers for the Hare Krishna. But that was before I fell in love with Jesus, married a church-planting pastor, and traipsed after him, attending church in elementary schools, a community...