Always Mama
It’s fun to watch my children be parents and to see them do the same things I did when they were small. Sometimes when I’m with my daughter Mary Evelyn and her daughter Clara, I see Mev wiping a bit…
Month November 2013
An Astronaut’s Prayer of Thanksgiving
Several years ago, our good friend Pat Wilhelm gave us a book about Thanksgiving, one of the only books about Thanksgiving for adults that I have ever seen. Thanksgiving: Feast and Festival was compiled by Mildred Corell Luckhardt and was published in…
Holiday Prep
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. Are you stressed yet? We like to host relatives, and often friends, too, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day. We did that again this year, so my stressful days were this past Saturday and Sunday. Not…
Thankfulness and Pinched Noses
Isn’t it wonderful that we as a nation continue to set aside a day to be thankful? God has given us abundant reasons to have grateful hearts. Blessings abound every day of our lives. Therefore, our grateful hearts overflow with…
The Perfect Turkey
I had been twenty-one years old for twenty-five days when I married Ray in 1974. I joined him in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was working on his Masters in history. We were about four hours away from my folks and…
The Coach
Just weeks after Ray and I were engaged in 1974, we stopped at a country store a few miles outside of my hometown. Inside was a girl I had known in high school. We had graduated a year apart, she…