My friend, Melanie, posted this on Facebook and I liked it so much I wanted to share and save it here. I love Indian folklore and the wisdom found in stories like these The Wolves Inside You An elder Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is [...]
I was honored to be highlighted today on Grandma’s Brief’s, an awesome blog by Lisa, a grandmother with a successful blog full of information to do with being grandparents. Actually, it is full of information for everyone and has links to just about anything you can imagine to do with a family. I love blogs [...]
I read an interview of Larry Smith by Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project and loved the questions so much I decided to use them to interview myself. I thought it would be a simple exercise and make a nice blog. I challenge you to ask yourself the same questions and blog about them. It [...]
* Communication = more listen less talk. * I like quitting caffeine so much I go back on it just so I can go off again. * Don’t play Facebook during 24. * Judge not. (Oh, someone else already said that.) * Time flies whether you have fun or not. So enjoy it. * Jesus [...]
I’ve been thinking about “patients” and “patience”, both of which describe my man at the present time. Patience is definitely his virtue and not mine. Oh, I am sort of patient. It just doesn’t always show, because I like to whine about things and be a little bit annoying while I am being patient. I [...]
Last week two people who worked for a company that was contracted by Rocky Mountain Power showed up on my doorstep. “Do you mind if we run that pile of limbs at the front of your property through the chopper so we can get our equipment back and around your motor home? We need to [...]
That mean old March wind gusted fiercely the other night and uprooted a sweet little tree that blossomed beautifully in our neighborhood every Spring. With its roots broken and exposed, it didn’t have a chance of recovery, but in one last burst of energy it gave the neighborhood one last gift of delicate, fragrant blossoms. [...]
The other day the clouds were so beautiful we had to stop several times on the way home from town to look at them and take pictures. There is something about even the darkest of clouds that make me feel close to God. Like this one makes me remember the song “Look for the Silver [...]
Out with 2009 … During that year Lynn retired, we bought a used motor home, we had the most relaxing six months ever in the northwest. In with 2010 … Lynn will be having his knees joints replaced in March and I will be de-cluttering our lives and hauling stuff to the Deseret Industries by [...]
I’m always grateful for my blessings … but somehow the first of November my soul seems to fill with gratitude until I am almost overwhelmed at all of the good, wonderful things in my life. Fall is my favorite time of the year … hands down. Well, it starts my favorite time of the year. [...]
