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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Health)
Today, I’m thankful for health.After a few days watching my son suffer through a stomachvirus, I’m thankful that his health is returning to him.We are so blessed that Evan is healthy.At the doctor’s...
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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Freedom)
I’m thankful for freedom.The freedom I enjoy was given to me.I’ve done nothing to deserve it or receive it.Men and women, in uniform, have paid the price for my freedom.Others died. Sacrificed. Given...
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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Time Change)
Time change.We’ve been in this “new time” for a week.Funny how we complain about “losing” or “gaining” an hour. Unless you live in a few places, where they don’t participate in the time change, you’ve...
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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Memories)
I’m thankful for memories.I’m thankful for the childhood memory of building forts in the woods and playing army.I’m thankful for the teenage memory of having a paper route at 4:00 AM, delivering the...
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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Sight)
I’m thankful for sight!Seeing a new day.Seeing the full moon. Half moon. Quarter moon. It doesn’t matter.Seeing leaves turn orange, yellow, red. Watching as they fall to the ground.Watching a rose bush...
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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Uncertainty)
I’m thankful for uncertain things.Probably sounds weird to some. However, I’m not a big fan of “sameness.”No, I’m not ADD or ADHD or any of the other AD words.Yet, I find that I get bored with doing...
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A Month of Thanksgiving--100 Words (Projects)
I’m thankful for projects. Lists. To do lists.When we bought our house 1 ½ years ago, there were few problems with the house.However, I took the inspection room and made a list of everything the...
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Customer Service--100 Words
Customer Service. Those words once meant something. In the “olden days” of the 1940s and 50s, attendants filled your car with gas and cleaned the windshield. Milkmen delivered to your front door. Car...
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Home Isn't Always Where the Heart Is
A Facebook cartoon I saw last week said something like, “Thanksgiving—the day family gets together—and you just hope the police don’t have to be called.” Or, it said something like that.You’d think...
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If I Had Hair...
If I had hair, I’d pull it out! Yes I would!That’s how I feel many days being a parent.Don’t get me wrong. I love my son. I really do. He’s so much fun and he’s such a good boy—well, he is fun almost...
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The Kindness We Show (Or Don't)
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless” (Mother Teresa).The other day, I found myself in a really bad mood. In trying to understand why, I’m not really sure what...
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Finding Joy in the Calendar
“You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on you. No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he is not the same man”...
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It's That Simple!
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for” (Bob Marley).Dear Tonya, Happy Anniversary!I find myself sitting here on our anniversary thinking about...
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We the People...
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” (Amendment 2, United States Constitution).While watching...
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A Line in the Sand
“Setting boundaries is not a more sophisticated way of manipulation—although some people will say they are setting boundaries, when in fact they are attempting to manipulate. The difference between...
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The Vanishing Dream
“You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while. Then it disappears” (James 4:14).During much of my life I’ve had a singular goal. My...
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Thrown Under the Bus
“Ariel, listen to me: The human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they’ve got up there!” (Sebastian, The Little Mermaid).Do you ever “get thrown under the bus?”Maybe that’s a...
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Throwing a Fit
I sometimes sit and watch my son, finding myself shaking my head at his behavior. Evan is such a good child, most of the time. He probably averages 80% good, 20% terror. That’s not a bad average.I...
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Life Happens
Life happens.Startling reality for some people, especially those who believe someone, something, or some Higher Power is responsible for rescuing them from it.Yet, life happens.I had a heart attack 4...
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High Expectations
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of...
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