I’ve been thinking…
Happily Ever After?
Can I let you in on a little secret? I’m writing my first book. I’ve wanted to be a writer from the time I was a little girl. My friend, Heather, and I were quite ambitious as children. We once started a petition to have the old Thompson house rebuilt as a point of...
When God Interrupts
"The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps." As mentioned in a previous post, I have established a practice of writing three pages first thing every morning. I got out of the habit for the last several months while it seemed that everything in...
And the Other Shoe Dropped
I stood on the front lawn, the phone to my ear, a 9-1-1 dispatcher providing the assurance that help was on the way, and wondered if the gurney would fit through the mess of flower pots on the front sidewalk. A hauling service truck turned onto the street, ready to...
Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me
Saturday evenings were very predictable in the home in which I grew up. Hee-Haw came on at 6:00 p.m., and my parents tuned in religiously. (Perhaps this is where I developed my extreme dislike for country music.) As there was only one TV in our home at that time,...
The Power of Oxygen
A few weeks ago Hubs and I took a weekend trip to celebrate our anniversary. If you read my blog with any regularity, you know that we are avid hikers. Not backpackers, but day hikers. The mountains are our happy place! I intend no affront to my beachy friends—we...
Consider the Kitties
Consider the kitties.They are born on top of the a/c unit,and, though not really a cat person,you feel delight in your heart at the birth. At the cry of one, you run get the scissorsto cut the umbilical cord away from the crevice in the brickswhere it is trapped,and...
We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.