I grew up knowing all too well what coal was. Let’s just say coal and I were “up close and personal.” You see, we used it for our main heat source in the front of our home. The structure was an old Camp Croft army barracks my mother and father bought after the camp closed […]
The song, Abide with Me, reminds me of being human. Though some consider this a sad song, if you read the words or listen to them closely, it really offers encouragement for dealing with life and death. Death can look so different to each of us. For instance, there was the time right after my […]
In our fast paced society today, I suspect many of us find ourselves stretched thin in both our work and our personal time. Indeed, even the best of us can have way too many things to do. We may find ourselves thinking we just can’t breathe sometimes and feel that we desperately need a break. […]
Not one of us will go through the day today without hearing the words “Anna Nicole Smith.” She’s been in the news so much recently that she has almost become a household word. No matter what you thought of her and her life, you could figure out she was a beautiful, articulate and intelligent woman […]
Have you ever made a casserole or other dish that seemed it was missing an ingredient? It might have been bland or just didn’t quite have that savory taste you were looking for when you ate it. You may have thought you wanted to throw that recipe out. Or maybe you went back to the […]