Month: June 2022
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Friendship is an Action Word
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m just full of old, tried (or maybe tired) and true sayings today. In addition to “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold” there’s “No man (woman) is an island.” And the great 60s classic….”I get by with a little help from my friends.”… Read more
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The Cure for Anything
Reading Time: < 1 minute My youngest sister Lisa is visiting. She lives in Naples and because she blazed the way moving to Florida 3 years ago, we now live here too. She was in Wisconsin and other parts north when we were earlier this month. We agreed, coming back to Florida after a mainly… Read more
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Miss You, Dad
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s Father’s Day as I write this. I was blessed. My parents were married to each other up until Dad died a week before Christmas in 2017. We’d celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary at Thanksgiving that year. For some reason everyone, including my parents, wondered for years after why in the… Read more
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Beam Me Over, Scotty
Reading Time: < 1 minute I can’t wait for the reality of teleportation. The drive home from Wisconsin was brutal. Twenty-four hours in the car, outside temperatures sometimes upwards of 100 degrees, and fuel prices at break-the-bank levels. There’s no place like home. But in the future, to get back and forth between home and… Read more
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Where the Heart Is
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy and I lost nearly everything we owned in a tornado in 2003. We learned back then that relationships are what matter most during our earthly life. Though we love living in Florida and I’d be happy to never take another vacation, we have relationships that matter a lot to us… Read more
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Humbled and Blessed
Reading Time: < 1 minute My sister and my mom gave me a totally unexpected gift today. There was no occasion for which a gift was anticipated. This is a picture of the shell of the present, but the real gift was what they wrote in it about me. BEST. GIFT. EVER. I cried reading… Read more
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Pop Culture Illiterate
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy and I live in a little bubble of our own making. At home we have a TV, but use it almost exclusively as a giant computer monitor. The last time we turned it on as a TV was to check the score of the Super Bowl. Three or four years… Read more
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The Joy of Family Events
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’ve been back “home” to Wisconsin where we both grew up and where most of our family stills lives for about 10 days now. It’s been a joy to be able to share several family events with them since we’ve been here. We attended the Memorial Day Parade, graduation from… Read more