I will come clean and admit it right here and right now ... I have fallen out of love.  There, I said it, and it does not feel so bad.  The brilliance and the sparkle of that first season together is ... well ... gone.  It has been replaced with hazy, cloudy, questionable, even difficult, … Continue reading The Sparkle is Not Looking Very Sparkly →

Oh my goodness!  How do I keep doing this to myself?  I put things (valuable things sometimes) away in "safe" places, places that, at the time I am doing the putting away, I think I will absolutely remember, places that I will never forget.  Right?  Sure, if you want to dream that dream...sure!  You know,  at times the things … Continue reading Keep Looking Until You Find It →

It is Mother's Day weekend, so the topic of the day would be, of course, Mom!  Everyone should write it down right now...Elaine will be in major hot water once this blog is posted.  I have a mom that HATES to have her picture taken (let alone posted on a blog site for all the world … Continue reading Don’t Let Mom Look Away →

Every now and then, my youngest niece and I get to have a whole day of staying in for a movie marathon.  (By the way, it has been much too long! hint...hint...hint!)  Mostly what we watch are older movies, many of which were made before she was born.  One of our favorites was filmed before … Continue reading Be the Truth You Want to See →

From the time I was very young, I have always loved looking at house plans and dreaming of the perfect one.  There used to be a new house plan in the Sunday paper each week to daydream about. Although, I don't see a new house in my future, I still collect house plans on my favorite "social-media-idea-gathering" … Continue reading Looking Around to See if Any One Is Watching →

Since I am a slightly more land-locked than I used to be these days, partly by circumstance and partly by choice, I have been living vicariously over the past year or so through the wanderings of a friend who is making her way all over Europe; and she is having some of the coolest adventures.  I think, … Continue reading Facing My Fears →

It has been a rather emotional few weeks for some folks that I hold dear.  Thoughts of them, and the memories running through my mind, has caused me to start searching through my stash of old journals to refresh myself on some special moments.  My pastor of the past fifteen years is going through some pretty … Continue reading Written Words to Look Back On →

Looks like the warm, gray, fleece blanket is going back on the bed ... again!  We are headed toward the middle of April in the south and we are still doing the off again, on again, off again ... uh um ... on again winter blanket dance!  As I write this, it is 38 degrees, supposed to get … Continue reading Inspect the Protective Layer →

I recently had a day where, every time I turned around, I was tripping over something.   There were a few moments where my balance was being challenged and I was not sure which side was going to win . . . up or down!  I have to work a little harder at balance these days, and I have found … Continue reading Behold the Balance →

The flu got me a few weeks ago and kicked my behind!  The virus that took control of my body was bad enough, with an unimaginable headache, but the lethargy and lifelessness that followed drained all my energy and motivation.  And rest ... rest was unattainable during those first four days - and nights.  My head … Continue reading The Blinding Light of Untruth →