In August 1994, in my previous life, my sister MessCat joined our family on vacation. We stayed in the little park home at the "campground" in Florida. It was called a campground, but everyone stayed in some kind of mobile/modular home on a little plot of grass across from the canal. Many had boats docked… Continue reading Whoa man!
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Christmas Eve Light and Love
Twenty-two years ago Christmas Eve fell on a Sunday, just like this year. My baby girl was three months and three days old, and she was being baptized at the morning church service. Christmas Eves at our church then were quite full. The church couldn't be decorated until after service on the fourth Sunday of… Continue reading Christmas Eve Light and Love
Car Trouble
"You got a car, you got car trouble." I think it was my Papa who first said that. But I heard my Daddy say it many, many times over the years. Usually followed by that sigh of his. And the acceptance of the inevitable. And it's the truth, isn't it? Eventually, something will go wrong.… Continue reading Car Trouble
the crack in the darkness
what if as we sit in the darkness, trying to figure out how to piece it all back together again each time we feel the pain of the losing what if, as the darkness threatens to envelop us, and all the light that we cannot see is just out of our reach what… Continue reading the crack in the darkness
Jesus on the Roof
"There's a house.....on that street over near the DQ on the way home, you know? Well, they had Jesus up on the roof! I could scarce believe my eyes.....up on the roof--JESUS!" "Jesus on the roof, huh? That's different." "But it's for Christmas! I think it's kind of cool.....definitely different. He wasn't all lit up… Continue reading Jesus on the Roof
What She Sees
Do you know what a "meme" is? According to Wikipedia (a great resource, right, I know), "a meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena." Yeah, okay, now that I've cleared that up, the… Continue reading What She Sees
I Might Need A Nap 