General Blog Posts
Last week, I talked about how it seems like the media hooks onto something and beats it to death, taking the focus off other more important things. This gets people upset. Sometimes they don’t even understand what they are upset about. Often, the public doesn’t even have all the facts. In an effort to pack…
I am discouraged by the media, particularly the national broadcast media. Journalism is an honorable profession for which I studied years ago. Over the years, at least in some sources, objectivity has been lost. When I was in college, I learned I was to keep my opinions to myself except in editorials and opinion pieces,…
According to Skin Horse in the Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, you aren’t real until someone REALLY loves you, and sometimes this hurts. It happens bit by bit over time. It’s like aging. It happens a little every day, but a person doesn’t notice it for a while. We just go about living our lives,…
One Thursday I heard a disc jockey on a radio station exclaiming that it was almost Friday, almost the weekend. It got me thinking about how we give Monday a bad rap. I suppose this is because it is the day most people return to work. Monday signifies the beginning of a long week of…
Lisa, Lucas, and Amy are names that come to mind when I recall answered prayers for healing. These three were healed from leukemia. I think of baby Kaitlyn S. who is now a woman of 20 who has had two heart transplants, the first when she was a newborn, the second at the precious age…
In the last year, I’ve been constantly reminded of the fragile line between life and death. Jason Gray’s song, “Good to Be Alive” has the refrain that says, “I wanna live like there’s no tomorrow, love like I’m on borrowed time”. He encourages us to live our lives well which is an excellent recommendation. I…
Love is a verb; let me count the ways . . . When you love someone, you show your devotion and affection through actions, otherwise the person of interest will not know your feelings. Even animals show their love for their people. Our cats will purr and rub against me, clearly claiming me. Sometimes breaking…
Strengthening marriage means spending time together. During our 30 years of marriage, my husband and I have not kept the same shift. Most people (83.2 percent) work between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. For part of our marriage he was among the estimated 4.6 percent of the workforce working second shift, and during another part,…
Rejection is a societal cancer running rampant in the world while acceptance is the balm we all seek. To reject is to refuse to accept, to refuse to make use of, to refuse to believe in. People can choose to reject others for anything: too thin, too fat; too rich, too poor; too old, too…
Our Plymouth Grand Voyager had over 200,000 miles on it when we took it to the salvage yard because its aging ailments were starting to border on dangerous, and we didn’t feel it wise to stick any more money into it. We purchased the van new when our son Isaac was a few weeks old…