In the 50s, when I was in grade school, my mom was one of the very few mothers who worked outside the home. Back then, I wished my mom could be like other mothers. I envied the friends who didn’t walk into an empty house. Mom was a nurse, Dad a police officer, both very …
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
Last year, we booked another bucket list dream trip, this time for a Mississippi River cruise on the American Queen. Last week, we flew with friends, Mac and Loretta, to New Orleans a day ahead of embarkation. Loretta knows good food and where to find it, and we said please make reservations wherever she wanted …
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
“For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways…”
We all have close calls, those times when we know we have come face to face with eternity. Our heart rate skyrockets and adrenalin kicks in to reaction quickly. Sometimes we look back and wonder how we survived our childhood, considering the dangerous risks we took just for the fun of it. Sometimes we look …
There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I have learned through experience not to trust movie critics. If I listen and go to a movie that receives their thumbs up and rave reviews, I inevitably come home wanting to take a shower and kicking myself for wasting $10 on a ticket. So – when I hear critics hate a movie, especially if …
My father-in-law called me “Mouse Protector” or “MP” for short. Why? Because I sprang the traps he set up to catch a mouse that ventured into the family fruit bowl and took a tiny bite out of an apple. The poor mouse had to eat, too, didn’t he? Dad Bill gave me mouse gifts for …
“Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely You will listen to their cries and comfort them. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so people can no longer terrify them.”