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My son was recently at our old house to get some items that had been left behind. He walked through the house and the barn that are now empty. Empty that is except for the many memories that continue to live there. On my last day there I too walked through the house, barn andContinue reading “Salt Water”

When I was growing up things were different. You had to figure things out. We learned to cook from scratch and combed through encyclopedias at the library to do school reports (God forbid someone else had the book you needed)! We looked up numbers in the phone book. And if you wanted to talk toContinue reading “User Friendly”

When my husband died my world crashed. I went through that first week without knowing what day it was. Once my children went back home, I sat in my house wondering why. Why had this happened? I told myself it was my fault. I had pushed him too hard and hadn’t been a good wife.Continue reading “GET UP!!”

I thought about my mom today because it’s my birthday. I tried to imagine how she felt knowing that another little life was soon going to join the family. She would have been ladened with labor by now (I was born at 9:21 pm). Not knowing if she was adding another girl to the threeContinue reading “Mothers Day”

We all know that ketchup has this logo on it and most of us have it in our cupboard. But have you ever wondered where the name Heinz 57 came from? One story is that there were 57 different products in this company. Who really knows? I do know that it is made up ofContinue reading ““Heinz 57””

Science calls it the fight or flight response. That feeling you get when you’re driving down the road and you hit an icy patch. Your adrenaline rushes through your bloodstream and your heart pounds. I call it sheer terror. After hitting a telephone pole, one becomes more fearful. As I was driving on less thanContinue reading “Instant Fear”

I’ve heard it said that we become our parents. But when do we become our parents parents? I used to worry about my mom because she spent the final years of her life living alone. We talked on the phone almost weekly. If something had happened to her I was in no position to getContinue reading “Well Check”

If you’ve ever felt disappointed, you aren’t alone. Sometimes things happen that disappoint you; ruined vacation plans, friends that back out on plans; or maybe you didn’t lose enough weight to fit into that favorite dress. Life, like baseball is full of curve balls. We have to learn to take these things in stride andContinue reading “Don’t “dis” Me”

People always say that God won’t give you more than you can handle. Nowhere in the bible does it say this. What it says in 2 Corinthians 2:12 is that His grace is sufficient for me and that His power is made perfect in weakness. So what does that mean? For the past two yearsContinue reading ““Numb””

The difficulty of being alone is magnified when things go wrong, Things that you didn’t have to worry about before. It can be daunting to realize how much you don’t know and what a difference having your spouse made. Now you are left to try and figure it out. Reaching out to others can beContinue reading “Can You Do Me A Solid?”