by Darcy Wiley | Nov 25, 2019 | Experiencing God, Gratitude
In the dusk after Daylight Saving Time ended, I carpooled four middle school boys to a barn party. My maps app called out step-by-step directions through the speaker and I kept my eyes focused on street signs as we wove our way into the country. As soon as we drove...
by Darcy Wiley | Sep 15, 2019 | Self-Care
For two seasons, I work away at the keyboard, writing the simplest sounds and phrases for people who don’t know them yet. My students, international employees at local warehouses, are the ones who turn America’s internet orders into real stuff that shows up on our...
by Darcy Wiley | Nov 15, 2012 | Pencils & Pens, Pocket Change, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}
In previous lines of work, when I sat at the teacher’s desk adapting curriculum for little English language learners, or when I wrote and edited and created design full-time for church ministries, I’d hear the bell ring or watch the clock tick to 5:30 to close out my...
by Darcy Wiley | Nov 13, 2012 | Fresh-Cut Flowers, Pencils & Pens, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}
More than half of the trees have lost their leaves. My green pepper plants have shriveled up and fallen over. The newest tomatoes have suffered frost bite. The veggies have grown through drought and flood in this hearty stew of compost and peat and vermiculite, but...
by Darcy Wiley | Nov 7, 2012 | Pencils & Pens, Pocket Change, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}
This past summer, Austin Chapman clicked up the volume on a song he’d never heard. When the sound of angelic descants whirled into his ears from a recording of Mozart’s Lacrimosa, the young man wept. It wasn’t just the first time he’d heard this piece of music, it was...