It’s been quite a couple of weeks!!  It started out at the end of April when I began the usual scrambling to prepare myself to leave for vacation.  That process normally takes me most of the week beforehand, so when the time comes to actually leave, you’re exhausted. You know how that goes!  And, [...]

Just in case someone asks the question, “Why DO you love your church?” I hope we all have an answer prepared!  Of course, this will be our official “I Love My Church” weekend!  Some of us will actually be wearing that question on the back of our tee-shirts (“ask me why I love my church!!”).  [...]

            Many of you know I was on vacation last week.  Some of you also know that I was vacationing in one of my favorite places – Las Vegas.  Yes, Las Vegas.  The truth is that I go there practically every year – I have a good friend with an absolutely beautiful timeshare in Vegas [...]

There’s a story of a mother mouse walking across a large field on a beautiful summer day. Behind her are her babies, all the little ones she loves so dearly. They get about half way across the field and, you guessed it, a large cat comes from the other direction. The cat and the mother [...]

Most of the time, I don’t mind a bit of a wait at a restaurant. I’m more than glad to sit back and enjoy some relaxing conversation with a friend or friends. Waiting to be seated or waiting to be served, in my opinion, is much more desirable than being made to feel rushed through [...]

How is it possible to even begin to understand why a person (or persons) would intentionally want to bring harm to innocent bystanders?  Of course, I’m referring to the senseless bombings at the Boston Marathon. I’m sure you were just as shocked and just as grief-filled as I was when I heard the news late [...]

Well, it FINALLY appears as though Spring is going to happen after all! In fact, we had a brief taste of summer this week, didn’t we? Of course, I’m one of those people who LOVE the Spring and Summer despite the minor inconvenience of some oppressively hot days. Starting with the very first frost in [...]

            There are certain “big moments” in life that, no matter how many years have passed, whenever we’re reminded of that “moment,” we feel a little sparkle deep inside.             Some of those moments, of course, are graduations, weddings, or the birth of a child.  Perhaps you fondly remember a lead role in a high [...]

Well, here I am again – I admitted a while back that I was “addicted” to a game called “Swiped” on my iPad, but this time, it’s a word game on my iPhone named “Ruzzle” – thanks to my daughter, Allison, who, I might say, is a world-class Ruzzle-queen.  I can never even come close [...]

            Every year, sometime in mid-to-late March, I start to get really, really tired of winter.  As much as I like to believe that March is the first month of Spring, it never seems to happen that way.   It always seems to turn into an extra month of winter tacked onto the end of February.  [...]