Rarely did my dad find a situation where he didn’t find some humor.  People who were too solemn or serious bothered him.  In one of his more serious moments though, he told my sister Sylvia and me that he wanted us to go with him and Mom to preplan their funerals.   They were […]

Recently, a friend had been working in her garden and yard. When she came inside, her legs were itching from having been in tall grass. Her four-year-old granddaughter had already run water and gotten in the bath tub. The friend just stripped her clothes off and stepped into the tub and splashed water up on […]

  This summer has been filled with changes. First, after celebrating our fiftieth wedding anniversary June 19th, Steve and I began our second half-century together. Thankfully, as I have become, shall we say, less youthful, God has blessed by dimming Steve’s vision. He thinks I look better now than when he married me. Please don’t […]