Recently, one of my daughters arrived at school. She moved into her apartment, where despite everyone’s preparation, the electricity was turned off. It took more than two days to get power to the apartment. The apartment is near the university she attends and she wasn’t sure what to do. Spending 2 days without power is [...]

So, as I got up this morning to go run, I was wishing that I had someone with me. I thought about how about 2/3 of my workouts are by myself–getting up when the house is quiet, offering a sleepy prayer & kiss goodbye to my husband, and then a drive–alone–and a run–alone–and a drive [...]

There are many people who touch our lives. Some make lasting impressions upon us, whether good or bad. Some we only see for a moment, but we will never be the same because of the kindness and generosity of this person. I have been thinking about this recently and wondering how my life may have [...]

I had a dream last week…not like Martin Luther King, Jr., but a dream nonetheless. In my dream, I was looking at costumes from a street vendor. Several racks placed around the edge of a cul-de-sac type street boasted various costumes in myriad fabrics which caught my eye. As I pulled one costume from a [...]

I had a brand new experience lately. Early one evening, I started feeling this funny bloated feeling in my abdomen. It didn’t go away. It became more and more painful. So I did what any logical person would do when experiencing a medical problem: I called my mother. I described my symptoms, and she told [...]

Recently, my baby had a birthday. For said birthday, we purchased “Tangled” as a gift. Since none of us had seen the movie, we all hung out after yummy cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (I just had a spoonful of frosting…!) and watched the movie for the first time together. I loved the song in [...]

“Do you know that I love you?” is a question I frequently ask my children and grandchildren. Not only is it important for me to tell my family that I love them, but it is also important that I know that they understand and feel my love. Thomas Leonard said, “Love is a way to [...]

I was looking over the cafeteria menu at school recently, and at the top of each day were the words, “Today’s Special!” (complete with exclamation point, which made me very happy, because I love exclamation points), indicating what the extra-snazzy offering of that particular day would be. Now, what they meant was, “the special of [...]

Well, as I was contemplating life, liberty, and my personal pursuit of happiness this morning under a steamy, streaming shower faucet, I came to this conclusion: I like to be warm. I began to ponder when I feel warm, like I did at that very moment, and I started discovering some thoughts I would like [...]