Sometimes Things Go Haywire
Happy Wednesday before Christmas! It’s a day for me to be embarrassed by that half-baked blog post that went out by email this morning. The reason it looked half-baked is because it was. It wasn’t supposed to go out at…
Category Never a Dull Moment
Was Yours the Perfect Turkey?
I had been 21 years old for 25 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…
Seasons (Take #2)
Thank you for those of you who prayed for Ray’s cornea surgery yesterday. He has a red and irritated eye this morning, but the surgery went well and we are grateful. We had a bit of a higgledy-piggledy time before…
Popcorn, Party Mix, and Stuffing Your Foot in Your Mouth
Don’t you hate it when something slips out of your mouth and you’d give $100 to stuff it back in? Several years ago some friends (I’ll call them Sam and Maggie) visited us over the weekend and went to church…
Feeling Goofy
When I was 12 years old, Simon and Garfunkel came out with a happy song called “Feeling Groovy.” The song was inspiration for the title of today’s post, Feeling Goofy. The idea for the post came last week during one…
Prayers with Thanksgiving
Last Thursday when: We were flooded in for a few hours and We found that our washing machine had walked away from the wall after I put an unbalanced load in just before I went to bed the night before…