This reflection took a different turn today when someone called me to remind me my reflection was not yet up on the site. She wanted to know if I had forgotten. Oh, the pressure. I mean, I do write most every morning and get it on the website before seven. For some reason, the reflection […]
I get lots of e-mails on a daily basis. The other day one really caught my eye. It was from my local legislator – Chip Huggins. Now whether he’s your favorite or not makes no difference to me. Somehow he got my e-mail address and he was asking what I thought about a particular piece […]
Have you always wanted to travel around the country? I have married friends – one a secretary and the other a director of a professional association – who both decided to learn how to drive tractor trailer rigs a number of years ago. Their goal was to retire and to go on the road as […]
It’s 8:30 on Christmas morning. Many presents have already been given and received by now…especially by excited children around the world. Some were expensive, some were not. Many were store bought. Some are handmade. Others are basic food items or clothing hard to come by in normal times. So what’s the best gift you ever […]
Have you even taken the time to look inside your house from the outside? I mean really just stopped to take a look inside?
I was listening to the radio again today on the way to a meeting when the country song, My Front Porch Looking In came on. LoneStar sings about finally owning a little piece of land where he can see the sun rise and the moon lay on the fences.
He then does something that, I suspect, many of us have not taken the time to do. He turns his head and takes a look inside to see what it looks like there. It’s in that moment that he sees the most beautiful view he says he’ll ever see…a family he adores a woman he loves.
While many of us do not fit the bill of the traditional family and we may even live alone, what does the inside of our home say about us?