10-27-221 minute 41 seconds Being the parent of adult kids is like going through an automatic car wash.To stay on the track going through a carwash, you put your vehicle in neutral, keep your foot off the brake, and most importantly, take your hands off…

10-13-22 (2 minutes, 20 seconds) Country music fan or not, you’ve most likely heard of George Straight. I like many of his songs and enjoy the movie Pure Country, in which he stars. However, my personal ranking of George leaped a few notches upward when…

9-22-222 minutes flat 🙂 Recently it took three of us to clip our chickens’ wings.I caught and held each bird, our son gently stretched their right wings to expose the flight feathers, and hubs carefully snipped away a narrow row of feathers to keep our…

1 minute, 13 seconds “I brought you a gift from the North Shore!” My young friend’s eyes twinkled as she placed a heart-shaped stone in my palm. I am guilty of droning on to this sweet girl about my favorite place on earth, and I…

(1 minute, 12 seconds) I want to offer the encouragement that, as a daughter of the Most High, it is crucial to consider and prioritize maturing in the Lord and growing in godliness. I’ve been re-reading and re-riveted by Jean Fleming’s insightful book, Pursue the…

(1 minute, 22 seconds) Wisconsin summer days are fleeting. Keenly aware of this reality and determined to savor a warm, nearly perfect day recently, I loaded “Ruby,” my fast bike with skinny tires, onto my bike rack and drove to a nearby trail.As I joyfully…

(2 minutes, 26 seconds) I loved my Grandma Ollie.Though I wasn’t hers by birth, Grandma loved me like her own. She taught me to cross-stitch, played funny finger games with me, and gave me her traditional 16 sugar cubes, beautifully boxed and wrapped in a…

2 minutes 45 seconds  I have a few articles of clothing hanging in my closet that I have never worn. It’s not that I don’t like them; in fact it’s entirely the opposite. I like them so much I only want to wear them for…

6-24-222 minutes, 28 seconds I like games. Card games, board games, and backyard games all appeal to me. My very favorite is word games. You know, the kind where you scramble letters around to make words (Scrabble), arrange words to make sentences (You’ve Been Sentenced),…

(2 minutes, 49 seconds) One of my older clients shared with me recently that in all of her life her only physical pain has been a couple of headaches. Those few episodes she said, were relieved with a mere aspirin. Truly I am glad for…