During the past year, my husband and I have been walking through the pain of losing someone we loved dearly. The pastor who was planning to speak at the funeral gathered our immediate family in a room a few days before the service and challenged us in a big way. Through tears he whispered, “Don’t waste…
I won’t deny that I am on a few social media networks, but I can admit that I am getting tired of people, good people and especially men, posting inappropriate material on their walls or pages. I’m at a point where it’s pretty simple to explain. It doesn’t matter how you are affiliated with me,…
My mother and step-father got divorced after almost 29 years of marriage. She was 79 and he was 81! I had made arrangements with the Sheriff of the Court to meet him at the retirement home where my mom was staying in order to be there when he presented the divorce summons. He told me…
There is a large, white-paned window in our dining room. It looks out into a wide tree-lined courtyard that is brilliant during each season. Our dining table is near the window, the very table where I am sitting at now. In this autumn and springtime months (the winter is too cold and the summer is…
When it comes to the man who pretzel-twisted the consciousness of humankind with his theories of evolution, we are all entitled to our druthers. However, when it comes to the marriage of Charles Darwin to his wife, Emma, we cannot discredit him entirely. Any couple that can stay married with TEN children must have some light…
