Love from the Refrigerator

Love from the Refrigerator

I don’t know what your refrigerator looks like but mine is a hodge podge–I’m talking about the outside, of course. Pictures of family through the years, of friends, cartoons or clever sayings. But, believe me, each piece of memorabilia is there for a very good reason! Sara’s and Nathan’s pictures  and Dayla’s children pictures and cards […]

Watch Your Mouth!

Watch Your Mouth!

Sometimes when an army retreats, it does not signify defeat, but a time to re-consider, replenish, and gather strength. That’s what the retreats are at Fran’s. In her lovely house where every square inch holds a Christmas tree or decoration, we group of women met yesterday and we came away refreshed. Just as her breakfast and lunch […]

Waxing and Waning

Waxing and Waning

Last night, I saw parts of old television programs starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. I do believe that a person has to have attained a certain number of years before he/she can remember Tennessee Ernie. The program last night showed the first Tennessee Ernie TV programs, in black and white. Yet, I remember being mesmerized by […]

My Sister Helen

My Sister Helen

In any family, there is a birth order. We can read books on the subject and discover why older, middle, and younger children behave as they do. Perhaps those studies are reliable and the theories are true or perhaps they are just generalizations because there is always somebody who breaks the mold. In our large family, there were […]

We Here Below

We Here Below

Each time the big airliner that took us to Ireland lifted off from the airport or came in to land, I marveled at how tiny houses, rivers, trees were below me. Have you heard the saying, “above it all”? Looking down on earth, I knew that in those houses and along those streets, people were […]

VPs and Dissecting a Cozy

VPs and Dissecting a Cozy

My Sunday School group is made up of some of the neatest people you would ever want to be around. Don’t let it be said that we VPs are old or dull or staid. No indeed! We want to know what, who, why, how. We are as curious as cats. We may look on life with […]