On a trip south we visited the Stephen Foster Museum. The house and museum is located in the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center Park on the banks of the legendary Suwannee River. This river was made famous by Foster’s song “Old Folks at Home.” The grounds are beautiful with majestic old trees. As wandered the […]
It is now four days since Christmas. I have my Christmas decorations all boxed up and downstairs in the storage room. Today I am dusting, vacuuming and doing whole house cleaning. Getting rid of the cookie crumbs in the carpet, the shiny tinsel that dropped from the tree ornaments as we took them off the […]
A few years ago I saw a lot of bumper stickers that said, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” At first glance, that sounds good. The person displaying that is recognizing that they are not better than someone who is not a Christian. It implies perhaps humility and a non-judgmental attitude toward others. But I have […]
Our pastor has been doing a series on Psalm 23 – taking one verse at a time. Today she spoke on one verse that has been such a blessing to me throughout the past almost 20 years. It is the verse that says: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I […]
I’m not really one to make new year’s resolutions but this year I have said I want to write more consistently and also to add to the blogs I now follow. So, how am I doing? Well- it’s is now the 4th of the month and I am just now starting to write again. Funny […]
This was recently shared by a pastor and so funny I wanted to share with my readers. Father: What does the Bible say about how you treat your father and mother? Child: Honor thy father and mother. Father: Good. What does the Bible say about how you treat your siblings? Child: Thou shall not kill.
I posted this last year for Mother’s Day but I still get a laugh at the ten things Mother never said to me. In remembrance of my mother and her great sense of humor I share it again this year. Happy Mother’s Day! Grandma’s Ramblings It’s almost Mother’s Day – and my memories of Mom […]
When Jesus was on earth He seemed to assume that as His followers there were things we would naturally do. Not to try to earn a place in heaven. Not to rack up points on the “goodness” scale. Not to “prove” we were His followers. No. Things we would do because as a committed follower […]
One story my husband hates for me to tell – but I get such fun out of telling is the Sunday a visitor showed up at church. My husband loved to get out of the office and into the community. He felt just sitting at a desk all week was not the best way to be […]
Salted Caramel Children should be seen and not heard. Each day during the month of February, at around 6 am Pacific Time, I will be posting an old adage, an old saying, a familiar expression that we’ve all heard and have probably used during our lifetimes. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, will […]
Crispus Attucks one of five killed in the Boston Massacre Recently I shared a post about a statue of an African-American that my husband and I found when we were exploring a park in Charleston, North Carolina. One of my readers wondered how many statues there are in the USA of African-Americans. That started me […]
Six years ago a dear friend died just before Christmas. My husband and I had watched him battle cancer (two different kinds) for over two years. It was hard to see him slowly lose the battle. He fought hard and he never lost his courage or his great sense of humor. His family asked my […]
Well it seems I am on a roll – memories of Christmas past just continue to occupy my mind – especially at bedtime. Maybe it’s just that I am getting old. Maybe it’s spending this Christmas in a new home in a new state far from what was familiar. The memories are for the most […]
Spring break this year found my both my daughter and her husband out of town on their jobs leaving my husband and I to take care of – and entertain – our eight-year-old granddaughter. What to do? We played school with the animals. My husband bought these animals at the local zoo one year when […]
