Christmas Day, 2022. Holidays are funny, as in odd. For some, they are the height of excitement, anticipation, and joy. For some, they are depressing. Emotions run amok, and give extraordinary highs and infinite lows, sometimes in a matter of moments. Today, I am alone. My family will be getting together if we can in…

You have had the sense in my last few and far-between blogs that I have been in transition. My life changed radically when my husband of 37 years left. This painful process of divorce is one that has only been endured with the help of my Sovereign God, my loving and supportive family, and friends….

Well, dear readers, I have told you about my paternal grandmother in the first entry of this blog, and much has happened in my life over the last couple of years. As I write this on the first day of 2022, I am in the midst of great change: living back in my parent’s home…

I have been absent, busy making rehearsal supper to take to my son’s wedding, trying to prepare a healthy, inexpensive meal that is a crowd-pleaser. What better time of year than a fall wedding to serve hearty and healthy soups! I must add that the crowd I served contained a few special dietary needs. One…

I was reminded by a dear friend this week of a Bible verse she was searching for. She remembered the gist of it, but couldn’t find it, and I used my Bible app to search for it and find it. In doing so, I felt God speaking to me, and inspiring me to finally know…

David Bowie’s song has been running through my mind lately: “Turn to face the strange changes! Time may change me, but I can’t change time.” After my last blog about change being normal, I have been faced with a devastating change in my own life personally. But I have been reminded throughout the process that…

I hear and read much lately about the “new normal,” or things in our society returning to “normal” as more people get vaccinated for Covid, and businesses begin to open up again. What’s all this about “normal?” Why are we so obsessed with it? I would like to propose the idea that routines that we…

Recently, I heard about someone who liked to write, but didn’t want anyone to read what they wrote. At first, that may sound silly, but then I realized that just writing for writing’s sake is a great thing. Many things that I have written have been greatly beneficial to me. Writing in a journal or…

My love for history and storytelling surely started with my parents. I grew up in a loving home, along with my twin brother and a younger brother, knowing the family stories that were told and retold at family gatherings. I grew up delighting in the tales of what life was like back before I was…

I teach kids in our church on Sunday mornings and in our midweek AWANA program. I also helped raise four kids, and was a paraprofessional in an elementary school for a time. I love kids, and I love teaching. But sometimes, they can be trying, can’t they? One thing that raising and teaching kids has…