Social Media, Evil or Blessing? How About Both?
I’ve spent the past week on social media. The Good: Why have I been on social media when there are presents to wrap and cookies to bake? The truth is an iPad is a great companion when you’re not feeling well enough to do much more than run your finger over a shiny screen with…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Feeling with the heart of another
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. -A Place for Mom As we move into the holiday season, I’m reflecting on what it means to be a spiritual and religious person. Perhaps most important of all? To be able to feel…
Read More2018 Reading Challenge: Reading While Cruising.
I returned home Thanksgiving afternoon after three weeks of traveling in Europe. Part of the trip was on the Mediterranean Ocean and for a while, on the Atlantic. We visited Spain, Morocco, and Portugal. A fabulous trip, and in addition to posting photos, I’ll tell you more. But one great “small world” moment? Author Jayne…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Travel opens your heart…
“Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” -Paula Bendfeldt Having just returned from a grand adventure to Spain, Morocco, Portugal, and the Canary Islands, I will vouch for the above quote 100%.
Read MoreLove at the Dollar General, A Thanksgiving wedding
While I travel this month I’ve selected some of my favorite past blogs to share with you. This one is from 2009 when our family celebrated a very special wedding at Thanksgiving time. I get weepy reading it. There’s an update at the end. They had been a couple for more than twenty years. Each…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Gratefulness
Gratefulness is the only appropriate response to that which is given…and this life is a given. Every human being can realize: we didn’t make ourselves, we didn’t even choose this life. If you train yourself to be grateful for everything, every moment, then when you come to something that you don’t like, you realize…
Read MoreLife As A Lemonade Stand
While I’m traveling in November, I’m happily sharing some of my favorite blogs from 2009. In the years after I wrote this, our family bought a little cottage in Chautauqua and now spend our summers there. We’re still close to the family in this blog and love spending time with them. Of course Fortunate…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Family means showing up
“Family” isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and love. It means showing up when they need it most. It means having each others backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to even like each other. It means never giving up…
Read MoreOld Friends, or Digging Through Trash Cans for Love
While I’m traveling in November, I’ve chosen some of my favorite blogs from the past to share with you. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed going back into the past to find them. This one, about old friends, is from 2009. I’ve been cleaning my study. Today I discovered…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “A thing may be too sad…”
“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
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