Urgent prayer request
Precious friends, Ray and I are on our way to St. Louis. Our grandson Henry, son of our son John and his wife Audra, has been sick since Sunday. His symptoms have been mild and he has improved greatly. However,…
Category My Heart to Yours
“I Love Your Mother”
When I was a girl, I often heard comedians on television. Television was more wholesome then, but we still heard things we shouldn’t and there were certainly better ways to use our time. A common joke theme was mothers-in-law. Those…
Once Upon a Time
I stand in awe of the homeschooling pioneers who risked having their children taken away because they made the radical decision to homeschool. Though we were not pioneers, we began homeschooling in 1990 and have therefore lived long enough to…
One Size Fits . . .
A nearby department store had a big sale last Saturday. I like to shop there sometimes because they have petites. (Remember that in clothing, petite does not mean tiny; it just means short! My arms and waist are so short…
Fireworks for the Fourth
This flag flies on the front porch of our good friends Tom and Jo Carr, who recently moved back to Tom’s hometown of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, after he retired. Tom serves on the library board; Jo serves in the hospital…
Can Someone Get the Phone?
We got our first telephone when we moved into town when I was four years old. It was a black table model with a rotary dial. We rented it from the telephone company, just like everybody else. If we called…