Please Celebrate Moms

When I was a young girl, I don’t remember celebrating Mother’s Day.  I suspect we went out for a meal with my Mom and Grandparents as we often did on Sundays.  After my Mom died a profound sadness settle in my heart. […]

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An After Mother’s Day Post

  The words below were originally written May 19, 2019.   It’s been a week since Mother’s Day. Seven days to marinate in my thoughts on Mother’s Day and try to reconcile the ache in my heart.  I loved my mother.  I […]

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Taxes, Treasure and Truth

It’s tax time again and that familiar anxious feeling has been rising to the surface. I know that fear does not come from God. God is love and perfect love casts out fear. God says that he did not give me a […]

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Happy Valentines Day! I Hope You Like Cats

My daughter just had a birthday and what she wanted more than anything was a cat.  Her and her boyfriend went to The Cat House: Cat Lounge & Botique for his birthday.  Apparently he wants a cat so she gave him a cat […]

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Let Go of Christmas and Happy Valentines Day

Anyone who is among the living has hope -even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! Ecclesiastes 9:4 Several years ago I wrote a blog post called “Let Go of Christmas.”  It was this blog post right here.  The thing […]

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A Time for Everything

God’s word says in Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: During the pandemic we pulled our dining room table into our living room and started having weekly family meals.  It was during one […]

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Ask, Seek, Knock

The photo above is what used to be my grandparents dining room.  It’s been updated but nevertheless this is the dining room where I ate many meals as a young girl.  In July of 2023 I was struggling to write a Christmas […]

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Habitat for Humanity

One day I was working on my book and decided I needed a change of environment. I headed over to the Habitat for Humanity Restore near my house and sat down at one of the farm tables to write.  Writing has been […]

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Introducing Florentine

Two days before Father’s Day we signed up at Wright-Way Rescue  to foster Florentine.  She is an adorable shepherd lab mix.  We had her for a few days and then realized she was sick and so we had to take her back […]

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