For the past few years I have spent New Year’s Day looking back and dreaming forward. I write down a list of things I’d like to accomplish not just in the next year but also for the years ahead. Some of the things are specific to that year, but others are more like bucket list…
A Year of Blessings
It occurred to me that my last blog of the year 2013 should be something special. The question I posed to myself was, “what about these last twelve months would be worthy of a special, end-of-the-year blog?” And then I decided that I’d take just one picture from each month to represent all of the…
Our Classic Christmas Tale
Every family has favorite Christmas tales; not the ones that you love to read, but the ones that you remember and repeat year after year. The ones that make you laugh – or perhaps cringe – every time you think about them. The following story happened to us a couple of years ago. I wrote…
Christmas – Moving from Perfection to Peace
The other day I wrote an email to a few very close friends about how stressed I was about Christmas. The house wasn’t decorated, the presents weren’t bought and the menu wasn’t planned. And my sweet friends sent back responses suggesting that perhaps this would be a good year to let go of a few…
What’s that Buzzing Noise?
When I was a kid I loved watching The Jetsons where Rosie the Robot did all the household chores while George and Jane Jetson traveled around in small spaceship-like vehicles between planets. I thought it would be so awesome to have my own personal spaceship. Of course, I also thought it would be pretty cool…