Everywhere I look lately, there is drama.  Friends and family are dealing with sickness and dysfunction. Pain is ever present.  Just making ends meet is becoming a challenge for all.  Keeping the “ends” tied until payday requires Herculean effort. In our country, in our homes there is an undercurrent of fear and anger. The stock market, mortgage [...]

Some friends just welcomed baby boy number three into their lives yesterday.  They will be showered with gifts this week and the weeks to come.  There will be cute little outfits, diapers, wipes, and toys for the baby. It’s a wonderful time in the life of a family. 
But as many of us with a few greasy [...]

The fantasy: Visiting an art museum with my child. I had dreamed of this day even before I became a mother. We would walk slowly through the museum.  Surrounded by beautiful art. Conversing about color, emotion and the use of light.  We would discuss creativity and GOD given talent.  The beauty of thinking “outside the box”.  Ahh, bliss!
The reality: GOD gave me three boys.  [...]

I love email.  It is so gratifying to come to the magic screen and see that someone wants to communicate with me!  My love of mail in general started as a child.  I would make the long walk up our driveway several times a day to see if the mail had arrived.  I loved news [...]

Today Greg’s Grandpa, C.D. Sanders, will be buried.  My heart is broken. I loved that man.  I was never an ”in-law” to him. I was a granddaughter. Loved without strings from the moment he lay his eyes on me.  I have sat at this computer for hours.  Writing. Deleting. Crying. How do I sum up a life?  Do I [...]

I am finding that when one has suffered loss, there are many days grief just seems to own.  Today is such a day for my family.  September 11, 2001 was a day of unspeakable sorrow for our nation.  Everyone has a story of where he or she was when the towers fell. We are no different.
Greg [...]

This weekend I took my two younger boys to Chuck E. Cheese.  I had put Zeke off for two months.  For sixty days, at least once daily, he has asked to go to this child’s paradise.  Most conversations looked like this…”Mom. MOM. Mom, would you like to take me to Chuck E. Cheese’s?  It’s where a kid [...]

Today I had the pleasure of meeting one amazing Christian woman.  Ms. Jewel is in the hospital here in our little town.  She was transported here by a military cargo plane. Lined up in beds, ten to a row.  She is undergoing chemotherapy for an incurable but hopefully treatable disease.  She has been in three hospitals in [...]

Dear Chocolate,
I don’t even know where to begin.  I mean how do you end a love affair? Especially one that has been as passionate as ours. I admit, we have had some good times together.  You made me so happy in the past.  It wasn’t just the way you always called to me across a crowded [...]