Category: Family
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Make Someone Feel Special
Reading Time: 6 minutesI was chatting with a good friend last week during our regularly scheduled biweekly phone call. Her mother, who will be 100 years old on her next birthday, has been living with her for the last 7 years or so. Her mom’s health is failing oh so slowly and my friend looks… Read more
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A Manitowoc Mash-Up
Reading Time: 5 minutesI was reminded, as I visited my mom last week, about all the posts I’ve written over the years about Manitowoc, Wisconsin, the town I grew up in. Here’s a mash-up of some of them from the past few years, with links to the original posts. Each one of the original posts… Read more
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Home, Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe post you are about to read is a rerun, written and published more than 3 years ago. Of course Randy is no longer walking the earth, but the sentiments of home are still the same. And the rerun of this post is especially appropriate this morning as I board a flight… Read more
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Rest in Peace, Randy
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Friday we laid Randy’s cremains to rest at Sarasota National Cemetery. The ceremony, with military honors including a three-gun salute, was beautiful, but somber and heart wrenching. Close to 50 people, some of whom were surprises to me, some who traveled a very long way to help lay him to rest,… Read more
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Morning Walks with Randy
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been walking for more than 3 weeks now. It’s been good for me. And for 2 weeks I’ve been going to the community park near my home to walk around the lakes instead of on the blacktop up and down the boring street by my house. The best part is that,… Read more
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Life After A Death
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor those of you who might be new here, my beloved husband, Randy, to whom I’d been married 50 years, 5 months, 14 days, died two weeks ago today. On February 1 he went to the ER with some ocular disturbances coupled with some numbness in his right hand. Within hours, after… Read more
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They Say Grief is A Journey
Reading Time: 5 minutesAbout an hour and a half after I posted last week’s blog where my P.S. said Randy was knocking on heaven’s door that morning, he quietly and peacefully drew his last earthly breath. I’m glad St Peter, or whoever is in charge of gatekeeping up there, didn’t make him stand knocking for… Read more
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Every Day, Run-of-the-Mill Miracles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the past 4 years, as Randy has written posts for Our High Places, he often details what he calls God Winks. He and I first heard the term God Winks years and years ago when we became friends with a much older couple. Randy was still running our pressure washing service… Read more
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The Cancer Life Rollercoaster
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve never liked roller coasters. I’ve ridden only a few by choice, and those were pretty tame considering some of the coasters open to the public in 2026. I could go off on a tangent here and tell you about roller coasters with names like Tormenta Rampaging Run, Wonder Woman Flight of… Read more
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(It’s Our) Honor Flight
Reading Time: 5 minutesBeing a military veteran in the United States defines you in many ways. This is especially true as you age and think back on what you accomplished in your life. There’s a generation, now almost gone, who served in World War II. I always thought the soldiers who fought in WWII were… Read more