Mexico in Pictures
We took several hundred photos while in Mexico. Some I will share with you when I do a series of posts about some of our experiences (come back next year to see these). Hope you enjoy this brief tour! …
Family
All I Want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas is to skip the whole thing. I’m not looking forward to it. At all. I have reasons. Darn good ones too. So why don’t you hear me out before you label me “Scrooge” and move on? Reason #1 Last year my mother was in the hospital at Christmas. This year …
Three reasons why I avoid Guilt trips
Come along on a recent guilt trip I took! No, really. It will be delightful. I promise! “Did you know Lily’s foot was hurt?” My stomach plummeted lower than the soles of my manure-encrusted boots. This friendship detonated in front of me. I’d done the unthinkable – injured her horse. “No. When did this happen?” Explanations …
Six Sicknesses Perpetuated by Social Media
Social media enables people in different countries to interact and share news. It’s a great way to keep in touch with family who live far away. Its positive uses are many and varied. Unfortunately, with every positive comes a negative. The negative uses of social media are many and varied. This truth smacked me in the …
What do you want to do when you grow up?
When I first started school I wanted to be a teacher. Who wouldn’t want to boss everyone around? By fourth grade, I loved making up stories, so I decided I wanted to be a novelist. Later…solving mysteries seemed exciting, so how about becoming an FBI agent? Like most kids, my thoughts about the future vacillated from …
My Vicarious Vacation: Gone Scrapbooking
Remember those old photo albums with some sort of strange clear glue and the plastic pages that screamed when you placed a photo behind them? You know, the ones from which all the pictures fell after a few months. So much for that awesome glue. Now, there are photo boxes and photo sleeves to help …
Finding Joy in Simple Things
Today’s challenge is to answer the question “what brings you joy?” It’s quite an undertaking since I have heard entire sermons on the subject. I spent one three-month term teaching my Sunday school class all about it from the Book of Philippians. You don’t have to be an aeronautical engineer to conclude explaining what brings …
Being Right Means being Able to apologize
A few weeks ago, I posted about maintaining family traditions around the holidays. I didn’t say there was no room for change, but I did mention conversations held with my son. He responded to the post (which you can read here) by saying he felt he had been misrepresented. I made him look bad. My …
Tradition or Bust
A great irony greeted me. The source was flesh of my flesh. Traditions that had been acclaimed as unchangeable fell beneath the barrage of personal plans. A son of mine was incensed when I mentioned to him last year in December that things were changing. The kids were becoming adults. Soon, the family Christmas traditions of …