(ROCKWALL, TX — June 10, 2019) What were you doing June 6, 1944? My Mother was working at the drugstore in Brownwood, TX, while Daddy, Uncle Sam & Uncle Joe (his two brothers) were in Africa & Sicily fighting to keep their homeland free from the horrors of Nazi Germany. I have all of the […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — May 3, 2019) I’m writing a bit early this week because today is an anniversary for me…of sorts. Six years ago today we moved Mother into Broadmoor Medical Lodge. It had been a very hard six months since her fall, but God was using those six months to build the facility that […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — April 7, 2019) It’s like Christmas in pink and yellow!!!!! Bunnies, eggs, lilies, baskets, crosses, glitter, Easter grass in psychedelic colors…it’s a sensory overload! Chocolate bunnies & Peeps galore decorate the shelves. Kroger is trying to catch up. My GRANDS that live here are teenagers now. Over time they refined the skill […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — March 25, 2019) Red, watering eyes, sneezing, misery, the fog of antihistamines…does any of this sound familiar? All that beautiful yellow fluff flying through the air, covering our deck is causing such misery for the one I share a house with. Bless him. Our inclination is to open up the house and […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — March 18, 2019) New leaf green! Some may call it chartreuse, some lime. Then there’s sage and seafoam along with emerald or even olive drab. I hadn’t given much thought to how many shades of green there are until this morning at church. I’m not Irish (I don’t think I am, […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — January 28, 2019) Spending time this week with friends who are ill reminded me of what can be done with these hands. Most of the things I do with my hands are mindless…making my bed (Mother made me make my bed before I left my room. I’m 71 years old and I […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — January 7, 2019) I spent 40 plus years caring for folks who had had heart attacks. In that period of time I honed my skills to know when they would go south with their symptoms, learning to anticipate their progress (or lack thereof) based on the area of their heart involved, lab […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — January 2, 2019) It’s all put away leaving nothing but dust impressions on the few areas that were NOT covered with something Christmas. I’ve heard people say I can do anything. But I don’t dust. It has to get to this stage before I dust…the fingerprint, writing-your-name stage. I try to limit […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — December 24, 2018) I wonder what the characters in my manger scenes do while humans aren’t around. We came to understand such goings-on when our youngest grand child became best friends with Woody, the main character in Toy Story. All the toys in the story took on human qualities carrying on the […]
(ROCKWALL, TX — December 10, 2018) I walked by my manger scene this weekend, but noticed something different about Joseph. He looked very strange as he watchfully guarded the characters in the scene. Joseph doesn’t talk much. He’s a watcher. We actually never have any words from him in Scripture. But his clothes weren’t right. […]