I was on vacation last week when I first saw this picture. I confess, it took my breath away. I had never seen it before. It’s a picture of my grandfather, Jack, his wife, Rhoda, and their firstborn, an adorable little girl, who grew up to become my mother. It was probably taken somewhere …
My son’s bedroom at home has been gutted. His stuff has nearly all been moved out of our house, and has been re-settled in its new home, his college dorm room. Upon our arrival on campus, several student volunteers whisked it from our car, and up the steps of his dorm and into its …
To the alert Bible School Teacher who took me aside and told me she was worried about my four year old son, because he always ate his graham crackers in such a way as to form the shape of a “gun”, and then pretended to fire that gun? To that same woman, who scared the …
Rene Her parents named their youngest baby girl Florene. But all her friends called her “Rene”. I wasn’t born into the privilege of being Rene’s niece. However, I was fortunate enough to have married into that position. And you didn’t have to BE genetically related, to feel like you’d become family to Rene. I only …
This post was written for GenFab, (short for Generation Fabulous), a group for bloggers of a certain age that provides encouragement, information and blogging tips. GenFab sponsors a once a month Blog Hop. This month’s topic was “How I met my husband/significant other”. You can follow GenFab’s twitter hashtag at #GenFab. I get so many (absolutely …
Have you ever considered whether or not you might want to homeschool your child? You have my permission to run away, now. Promise not to hold it against you! The chances are strong that this post is not going to make me any friends. My friends who are in their early days of homeschooling might …
i A twenty-fifth wedding anniversary is no small thing. And since it will only come around once in my life, and since a few of you asked to see the pictures we took on the evening of the event, I thought I’d share a few of those with you, as well as a few …
World’s Most Beautiful Wedding Song??? Seriously, Sooze? Perhaps you exaggerate? Just a touch? Well…since I was the bride, and my husband, the groom, was the man who WROTE the song for me? Absolutely not. I do NOT overstate my case. This IS the World’s Most Beautiful Wedding song. And it was sung 25 years ago, …
From the moment we eased our car down the driveway of the house that sat on the shore of Old Hickory Lake, and saw eleven white Labrador puppies lined up in a row, each standing on two legs with their paws resting on top of a short chicken wire fence, wagging their little tails at …
Deakie pinned his ears back when he was the most happy, and the most proud.Good boy, Deak. It is with a broken heart that I regretfully announce that Deacon D. Dawg left this life on Friday morning, while I was out of town, visiting with friends in Atlanta, and while the kids were out of …
Today, I have to share with you a tale of true independence. (We like what we like, and we’re not ashamed to admit it!!! A tail of capitalism as its finest. (So what if its a Chinese product? The American guys camping out in the fireworks tent for the holiday doubtless make their share!) When …
Yesterday I told you about Deacon D. Dawg’s Morning Dog Duties. And, of course, because I’m inwardly 13 years old when it comes to my sense of humor, I was irresistibly drawn to the thought that “duties” sounds like “doodies”. 😀 Well, today, I’d like to talk about Dog Duties, #2. 😀 Although, as irony …
Neither rain, nor hail, nor life threatening breathing crisis will deter this good boy from his appointed rounds. He pins his ears back like that when he’s really, really happy. You know, down at the vet’s office, they’re all talking about him. Oh, yes, Deacon D. Dawg is the talk of the town: the “Miracle …
A year ago today, my husband underwent non-invasive cardiac bypass surgery, due to the heart attack he had suffered four days earlier. So, today, I’ve been doing a bit of reflecting on what I believe in regard to life, and how I live it, and how I WANT to live it.. This shot was taken …
It was a hard, hard day. We had a hard day today. The other night, after a very stormy day, our electric fence alarm started screaming, indicating that somewhere around the perimeter the dog fence line might be broken. We unplugged the fence to silence the alarm, since it was late at night, and then, …