Recently, I was given the opportunity to research what Heaven will be like, with the focus: “What happens when a Believer closes their eyes for the last time?” Regardless if you are young or old, healthy [...]
“In a far-off forest, there was a lovely princess, who lived happily ever after .…” One of the luxuries the 2020 quarantine brought me was to dive nose-first into books, lingering in bed in [...]
Being a teenager brings about new experiences, new friends, new boundaries…and new pushbacks. While my hope for our teen son and daughter is that they will avoid too many permanent scars, I know that [...]
“The grass is greener where you water it.” I heard this on a podcast recently and it cracks me up. How many areas of my life have I gotten bored, frustrated, or fed up, [...]
Have you ever had your spouse come home and tell you about a work celebration he forgot to mention? That’s exactly what happened two weeks ago, and as annoyed as I was at first, [...]
As I passed this quiet street corner early this morning, it brought back a flood of memories. Almost three decades ago, from the corner of Spring and Campus Avenue, my BFF and I took [...]
As you read in the footnotes of my STORY blog last month, I’ve had a new family member enter my life, right at the end of his. Denny Pattyn is my second cousin and dying of [...]
As coronavirus grabbed the attention of our nation and Ohio was asked to shelter at home, our circa 1825 & 1928 home was in the midst of a face-lift. It’s a charming brick and [...]
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone*, and it wasn’t until I penned these words in a recent blog: “I will appreciate my third spaces: [...]
