Easter Memories Although Easter came early one year with its chilly temps, I insisted on wearing my new sleeveless dress to Sunday School. My mom purchased a soft white sweater with tiny pearl buttons to make that feasible. Accessories completed the ensemble–white gloves, a flowery headband, white ruffled socks, white…
Which Gifts Are on Your Table?
This Gift of the Month idea is a little different. I hope you’ll enjoy unwrapping it. Gift Selection For our family birthdays, the coffee table is the focal point with its stack of festive gift-wrapped packages for whichever boy or girl we are celebrating. As per our tradition, when…
Blessings Abound
I learned an unexpected lesson while walking in my yard admiring the beauty of spring. Our snowball bush is a profuse bloomer this year. Its huge white, ball-shaped flowers demand attention. There are so many blooms, I can’t imagine one more fitting onto the branches. This glorious shrub reminds me…
Pollen and Other Irritants
ACHOO! It’s that time of year. “This pollen is driving me crazy,” is the lament of many allergy sufferers each spring. The pollen seems to catch a breeze in the tops of tall pine trees and soar down into the nasal passages and eyes of its victims causing coughing, sneezing,…
The Sadie Attitude: Turn Self-Pity into Loving Others
We couldn’t find my seventy-five-year-old mother. I chatted with her each night after my dad died, but this time, calls to her home phone and cell phone went unanswered. Due to vision problems, she’d told me, “I just don’t drive after dark anymore,” but it was after 9:00 PM. Her…