Blog Category: Personal

  • Are you Grateful or Thankful?

    Tomorrow is the day when we used to have a lot of people sitting around our kitchen table. Two sets of parents/grandparents, siblings, kids, nieces, ...

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  • Home Sweet Home

    I’ve recently returned from a two-week trip to the west coast to visit our children and granddaughter. Traveling is always a challenge, and trips l...

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  • The Joys of Remodeling

    My house is in the middle of upheaval right now. I suppose that has been true at various times in the thirty years we have lived in this place. Wow. ...

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  • When Life Feels Like Limbo

    YOU KNOW THE FEELING, RIGHT? WHEN YOU'RE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE NOW AND THE NOT YET? I think it starts in childhood, right between the early teen year...

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  • The Great Illusion

    HE DIED ON OUR FRONT LAWN. The twelve-year-old boy was tossing a football moments earlier and lying on our grass in the space of a few blinks. ...

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