My daughter, Laura, is a new mom. So for Mother’s Day weekend, she wrote a guest post for my blog. She’s learning an important lesson on surrender. My daughter, Lucy Drew, is just four…

My friend, Susi, has the most beautiful feet. Now, you may think that an odd thing to say, but if you could see mine, you would understand why I appreciate a nice pair of…

“This month, Friday the 13th falls on a Wednesday,” my husband, Jerry will say while mischievously cutting his eyes at me. I think most of the time he says things like that to make…

To quote my grandson Henry, these words, “What is happening with this, Amma? What is happening? This is dangerous,” could quite conceivably freeze you in your tracks. But don’t worry, because to Henry, eating…

Tomorrow is Good Friday and many of us in quietness and solemnity reflect on what it meant for Jesus to, as a human being, face the physical torments of the cross. As God, the…

I think it started even before I had children, when my friend, Alice, who had three teenage children of her own, told me all she wanted for them was to raise them to be…

This has been staring me in the face for a while now; I hate to even admit it, but I have found myself experiencing a depth of loneliness I have never felt before. It has…

The other day Jerry and I found ourselves at the crossroads of selling or keeping our horses. We love them, but honestly, they are large and expensive pets. Given half a chance, they would…

This past weekend Jerry and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary. Getting away from our cat, dogs, and various a sundry animals, we came home relaxed and refreshed, but not quite ready to surrender…