Enjoying all of God's Gifts Under the Sun
….The Price Is Right! Well, unfortunately neither my cousin or myself heard our name at the beginning of that famous phrase from the CBS game show, “The Price is Right.” However, our experience going on the show was one of the most exciting opportunities of …
I’m sitting here in our apartment, that’s attached to our church, on our really comfy couch that was given to us, nearly brand new, drinking my coffee and looking out the freshly washed windows, at a palm tree that stands tall (in our front “yard”). …
I was standing at the sink washing dishes when something came over me that brought back a memory of my Dad. It may have been a smell. A sound. Something. And the picture of that memory was so clear in my mind that within seconds my …
Could this be happening? I really feel like I should go do something daring and adventurous… Like right this moment… I mean this is the end. Don’t you understand? I can never go back. I suppose I could run around outside in the dark and …
So, it was the first day of Autumn a few days ago. How did you celebrate the first day of this great season? On the eve of Autumn I went on a walk with my little family, and fall was definitely in the air. Sweaters were …
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of us arriving in Fremont, CA. It has been 1 year since we began making this place our new home. And wow, has it been a year! It has been a hard year. It has been a good year. …
It was midnight, and I was finishing up my custodial work in the FMA, my senior year of college. Usually, my night consisted of hyper girls riding around in mop buckets and singing “glorious” harmonies while “working”; but this night was overclouded by a sense …
I used to pretend to be a mom when I was a little girl. I would hold my baby dolls, I would feed them, and I would protect them from the boys. I imagined. Oh, I imagined. But I never imagined just how much a …
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ernest Hemingway With thousands of miles to go, the end looked sweeter and sweeter. But with old friends to see, new people to meet, and …
So here I am again… It has been far too long since I’ve written here–on my blog. I think over a year. But I needed that year to think. Really think about writing and what I wanted to share. Did I even want to continue …