Collecting My Thoughts

What life lessons did your parents teach you? We had a question like that in a group exercise at the women's club this week. I wrote a b...

Do you ever watch the YouTube channels? Today I wasted a huge amount of time watching 3 videos of Top Notch Lawn Care. Yup. Watched a guy cl...

 Social media--e-mail and Facebook and Instagram--will never give you joy in memories 80 years later--those pixels will be long gone (unless...

The book of Hebrews in the NT (Ch. 11 and 12) says we have a cloud of witnesses --and that's all the OT saints and the ones who died for...

The Crew Cuts were a Canadian boys group popular when I was a teen.  Today I was trying to get the cd player in my clock radio to work, and ...

If one of my nieces had asked me, "Who has Grandma's prayer covering," I could have honestly told her, "I don't know,...

Earlier in January it occurred to me that I should write something on the 20th anniversary of my mother's death, but the 24th came and w...

Sunday, August 25, was the 85th anniversary of my parents’ wedding. They died in 2000 and 2002, having celebrated together 65 years during t...

but it was just me.

Still finding letters from my mom inside the card box I'm clearing out. By this time (1998) Mom and Dad were living in a lovely retireme...

I used to joke with my mom about her crop and weather reports in her letters.  I'm sorry about that now--they are really very sweet when...

We've been moving and shifting furniture for about a week, redistributing books to various resale locations, removing our huge cabinet...

Cleaning out cabinets today. We're planning to make some adjustments so books, files and even dishes might have to be moved.  How do I...

My children have such wonderful memories of my mother, and they are now at the age (late 40s) where nostalgia is really kicking in. When the...