You know I have moved a lot in my life (or what seems like a lot anyway) and every time you move you have to get used to new things. Like where is the milk in this grocery store, or where is my favorite suntan lotion in this drug store, or do they even carry it. You know the drill. So, I really hate it when something I have gotten used to (and ( Read more... )

B and I are moving to be near our grandchildren. We went this weekend to look at apartments. Apartments in the town we are moving to are usually a part of a house, a duplex, or a triplex. Not part of a development. We looked at three places, one was the four upstairs bedrooms in a ladies house and she had turned one into a kitchen. We were ( Read more... )

"Reconciliation is nothing short of a miracle. Reconciliation preserves a relationship that could have just as easily been flung aside. Reconciliation is always a good reason for celebration. It is life-giving ( Read more... )

I am not working right now and so my mornings are often my own. I can do whatever I want. I usually start my day by reading email and then checking Facebook. I get several regular emails which often give my day the lift that I need. I am not a morning person. My hub knows to leave me alone until I start talking. When I did work my fellow ( Read more... )

My life has definitely been divided into chapters. Chapter One I was born and my family grew while living in a quaint little house in Shaker Hts, Ohio. Chapter Two we moved to a larger house with more land as our family grew. We lived in a more rural area, went to a school that had strong expectations of its students, found a church that became ( Read more... )

"That scrap of bread you brought with you to the hillside that is used to feed five thousand - if you offer it, but only if you offer it." - Martin B. Copenhaver ( Read more... )

Today is Wednesday, tomorrow I head home. I have been here in western Massachusetts for almost two weeks. It has been a totally different experience then the ones I had last year. Little A is five years old and as determined and stubborn as ever. Little L is now one and crawling to beat the band. He is inquisitive and challenging. He loves ( Read more... )

You know there are parts of the country that never hear a weather man say this phrase and there are parts of the country where this is the fall back. It is the short answer to, we really don't know how much snow/rain you are going to get so we say, "where squalls persist." The problem is, at least in northeast Ohio, that these squalls can be ( Read more... )

I basically was forced to retire from my job in the fall of 2007. I thought I had successfully transferred to another office in my company only to find that consolidation was going to happen and the office I had transferred to needed to cut staff, not expand it. I worked for six months and then was told there was no more work for me. I was three ( Read more... )

If you know me, then you know that I am a planner. I think I inherited that gene from my Dad. He was always planning something, a vacation, a home addition, whatever. I was accused when I was younger of always rushing things. I would pack for a trip well over a week before we were (or I was) to leave. I have tempered myself as an adult. One ( Read more... )