Relationships

Life is messy.    When we pour ourselves out to love and care for other people, it will be messy.  And in the process, we will inevitably experience some pain … and some hurt.   That's part of being in…

Last Spring I wrote a blog post entitled:  “Bird Babies on a Beam.”   I would like to present to you version 2.0 – “Bird Babies on a Bright Bulb!”   After the bird babies from last summer had hatched…

The past two mornings we have woken up to snow covering the ground.  Here you can see a photo of our front flowerbed.  It looks pitiful … three small rhododendrons and a few small lavender plants … all…

I wrote to our Compassion kids last week.  I was so excited to tell them all about the daffodils blooming!  It has been such a long cold winter that our daffodils are just now beginning to open ……

We woke up this morning to 23 degrees.   Brrrr!   I opened the firebox door to get a fire started, and a cold draft rushed down the chimney and into the house.  “That’s going to be a problem,” I…

I was just now in the bathroom putting my makeup on when my attention was suddenly caught by a bug on my shirt! …  immediately I instinctively smacked it!!   (after all, I had just been outside getting another…

I was out in the woodshed gathering more firewood to take around to the back of the house, to refill our wood-box storage-bin on the back deck.  With each piece of firewood I removed from the stacks, I…

I was enjoying a chocolate bar given to me by my daughter, when I noticed on the back wrapper, in small print, a statement that this chocolate bar was infused with a 528 hz love sound frequency to…

Today’s background photo is a selfie … taken in the mirror.  The fire was going good yesterday morning and I was in the process of adding more wood to the firebox when my arm accidentally touched the side…