I didn’t realize how fast the weeks were flying until today when I saw I hadn’t posted anything since the first week of April. However, that first week of April marked the beginning of a siege with some sort of respiratory bug that even now hasn’t left us. Some of the kids got high fevers […]
One of my favorite things in the Blue Ridge is watching thunderstorms roll in. From these hills you can see a storm approach long before it reaches your area. The lightning can be really impressive, and you can see it for miles around. One summer night we watched a storm come through, and about an […]
I can’t remember a more changeable weather than we have had this year, flip-flopping from cold to warm and back again, over and over. We had a week or so of warm balmy temperatures, enough to get the daffodils to pop up and begin budding, and the forsythias to start blooming, and then whoosh! We’re […]
I was a guest last month at a Disney resort in Orlando, attending a convention. We stayed in the Animal Kingdom Lodge, a resort with a distinctive African theme. I was pretty excited about going there, because it was first time thing for me. I read the web descriptions about the wild animals roaming around […]
Whenever something momentous or newsworthy happens, the news staff goes into overdrive, looking for experts to either validate or refute it. Sometimes the experts are interesting, thoughtful people with a rational handle on life and issues. Far to often, though, these experts are not objective, they have a bias that colors their opinion. The only […]
I stood in the breakfast room this morning watching the birds eagerly enjoying their breakfast. The downy woodpecker was hanging upside down from the suet cage, feasting on seeds and suet, but generously making room for the chicadees and tufties who came to eat. On the sidewalk enjoying the sunflower seeds were an assortment of […]
This song came to mind today, as I turn 55 (yep, that double nickel) and look at all the amazing things that have happened in my life. Married to a wonderful man for 35 years this April….nine fantastic kids, six extraordinary grandchildren. Watching life unfold and change. It’s never been boring. An adventure all the […]
February is our sixth month since we shut down our cable TV. I wondered how the kids and grandkids would handle it, and even more how my husband would handle not having the news channels. But I have to say that overall, we haven’t missed it. We aren’t totally cut off from the media, because […]
The Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Proverbs 29:18) and many people would say this is talking about having a vision or plan for the future. But the word vision has a wider range of meanings. It can mean a sense of direction, true. But it can also refer to clarity […]
Since we dumped our cable TV a few months ago, we have rarely missed it. The kids found plenty of other things to do without the boob tube and we don’t know how we had time to watch it. But last weekend we visited a home where they were watching some of the Christian channels […]
This year we planned on having a very low-key Christmas holiday, nothing fancy, no gift exchanges for the adults in the family, just dinner together and gifts for the kids. Keep it simple, no fuss, no bother, no hoopla. I’ve tried for two weeks to just make a list of what I wanted to get […]
It’s now officially Christmas eve and I can’t wait for Christmas to finally be OVER. Naturally, our family is not quite into the holiday spirit due to my father’s death a couple of months ago. But my dislike for Christmas goes back much further. This holiday has become a giant headache and a financial nightmare […]
