In a perfect world Mother’s Day would look like a sentimental greeting card and life would be uninterrupted and simple. But life as we know it is not always that way. There are mothers whose children are incarcerated…I pray for them. There are mothers who are incarcerated…I pray for them. There are mothers who patiently…
Category Archives: Family
the “perfect” plan
It was a PERFECT plan. A minor league baseball game, and afterwards….fireworks, and since we were with the “Grands” there was certain to be all the peanuts and “Cracker Jack” that our hearts desired. We arrived for the “perfect” Fourth of July evening and sat down in our seats. Overhead a dark cloud loomed, but since…
what momma taught me…
Among many, many other things… Thanks mom for the lessons you didn’t even know you were teaching… Still a work in progress…
A Legacy of Love
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~thomas merton~ It was authentic. It was real. It was indeed true love, once in a lifetime love…. My grandparents were married on Valentine’s Day, it…
snow day twenty eleven (part two)
It’s an event. Everything stops when it snows in the south. Yes, baking pans make some awesome sledding material…
