I always look forward to Summer. Summer days are long and lazy and warm. Okay, oft times downright hot. But I don’t mind so much, because there’s always the promise of beach days and barbeques and road trips. And when the sun begins to set and dusk comes, the soothing pastel oranges and pinks paint […]
Things are different this Christmas season. The world is not the same. While our society’s moral compass has been spinning out of control for quite some time, recent events in San Bernardino brushed a little too close for comfort with me and my husband. Up until only a couple of months ago, our granddaughter had […]
Sometimes I hardly noticed her. Usually when the days were warm and long like a sunbather stretched out on the beach. Those were the times my hours abounded with great plans and held endless possibilities of expectations fulfilled. Nary a cloud could be seen between me and my sunny disposition. Then the rumors would begin, […]
Some might label it a campaign or a program, maybe even a gimmick. But what our pastor presented to us three years ago was oh, so much more than that! It was a call to be a true disciple of Christ. The precepts were simple: Intentionally spending intimate time with God and His Word every […]
It was the day of our granddaughter’s baptism and I lay stretched out next to her on her parents’ bed, watching her sleep, mesmerized by her perfect smallness and amused by her squeaky little snores. How strong her grip was on my finger, I marveled. Much stronger than the day she was born. Then came […]
My brain kicks in and my hands go on autopilot, even as my eyes scan the greeting cards before me. This one is cute. Oops. Envelopes are sticking up. Hmmm, maybe this one. Uh-oh, those are facing the wrong way. Ah, I like this one. Wait. That doesn’t go there. I saw it somewhere else. […]
There are times in life when I feel like I’m living in a perpetually precarious mental state. Anything is liable to set me off. Lack of sleep. Lack of food. Fluctuating weather. Fluctuating hormones. Battling a virus in my body. Battling a virus in my computer (that one is guaranteed to make me want to […]
There are moments in history that are so shocking and catastrophic they imbed themselves into our very being. The sinking of the Titanic, the stock market crash of 1929, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy. The death of celebrities who died too young, whom we thought would live forever. They’re events […]
{Losing it... but not lost} 