Larry and I returned home happy and exhausted. I had just gone through a lifetime of memories and emotions. This weekend I united with cousins I hadn’t seen for decades. What joy to reconnect and meet some of their offspring. One said it had been forty years since our paths crossed when I had attended his wedding. Am I really that old??? My daddy was the baby of five siblings and my sister and I were still young when my cousins on his side of the family entered adulthood, dispersed and started their families. That seems like another life! (Read More)

“Stop, stop!” I remember running outside to stop the man who was clearing our land. I’d asked him to remove a section of trees so we could plant some evergreens behind our new house and thought he had gotten a little carried away with his yellow bull dozer. The gum-ball trees on the edge of what would be our lawn surely wouldn’t be a problem. Wrong! Twelve years later I regret stopping him. (Read More)

Let’s play “word association.” When I say snow, what comes to your mind? After a week of school closings and delays many of you may be thinking cabin fever and hassle. Our daughter Ginny works for the airlines and associates snow with canceled flights and urgent calls, as well as fun driving with 4-wheel drive! Tonight my uncle who lives in the DC area, where snow is falling as I write, remarked he likes the snow because it makes everything look so clean. Actually his perspective is biblical. “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18 (Read More)