July 4, 2017
It’s been hard for me to come home from Eastern Europe. I leave one home that I rarely get to visit for another. I give up the adventure of travel for the drudgery of routine. I have to remind myself why I love (and why we chose) this place. Places are like families to me. Your feelings […]
Read More →January 31, 2016
I heard a Christian doctor say something recently that I’ve wished wasn’t true. He claimed that, even with all the modern advances in medicine, the average lifespan is still 70 years, 80 at the most. Yes, some live to be 100, but many die way too young. Put them together and it all averages out the same […]
Read More →March 31, 2015
When Steve and I got married, fourteen years ago today, I read this stanza from Robert Browning to him: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but […]
Read More →February 3, 2015
Or … a Small Step for Arthritic Steve, a Giant Leap for Bionic Steve. My husband’s on his way toward becoming the new six million dollar man. Yesterday he had a total knee replacement. After staying up much too late Sunday night, riveted to the excitement of the Super Bowl, he took a short nap and […]
Read More →November 5, 2014
Yesterday my husband and I shared something that sets us apart as a couple, something we love sharing with each other: our double birthday. These birthdays have gained a warp speed lately and pile up more rapidly with each year, leaving us wondering how another 12 months could possibly have passed already. I’ve revised the […]
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