Life
My Safe Haven
Several weeks ago, I had some problems in my bedroom and moved everything out, including myself. I will spare you the details, but know it was a very unpleasant experience. It was particularly disturbing because I have always felt that my room is my one safe haven. Today I decided that things seemed to be […]
New Job Week One
I was very happy today was Friday. It’s been an exhausting week as I started a new job for a CPA doing tax preparation. I have been learning computer systems and processes for organizing and filing paperwork. People are all different, and so is their tax situation. So while the goal of the job is […]
Monopoly and Meekness
Today’s Gospel at Mass, was the Beatitudes from the book of Mark. The priest started his homily by asking if people liked having game nights. He went on to describe how he loved to play Monopoly. Some games went on for hours. I thought about when I used to celebrate Thanksgiving with my son’s in-laws. […]
Catching Up
My neighbor and I visited for quite a while today as we sat outside and soaked up some sunshine. It had been too long since we talked. She and her family went on a vacation last month for their wedding anniversary. Her husband has a difficult time getting around and she said it was a […]
Honoring and Remembering
It is difficult to believe that my dad died 4 years ago today. For the past few weeks I have been thinking about him a lot and dreaming about him. Most of my dreams continue the saga of how I was unable to care for him during the last several months of his life and […]
Big News
Today my son and his wife had a very special doctor’s appointment. When it was finished, they shared the big news that they are expecting a baby at the end of August! They both wanted to start a family soon after their wedding and that is exactly what happened. They shared the ultrasound of the […]
Seeing the World
Today I started cleaning out the cabinet with all the maps and travel information that my parents kept. They were all neatly filed alphabetically in folders and took up the whole four drawer filing cabinet. Needless to say, I was happy to get through even half of the first drawer. It is all very interesting […]
Million Miles Away
Tonight I watched the movie, “A Million Miles Away”. It was the true story of a man from Mexico who grew up traveling from place to place and working on farms with his family. His dream was to be an astronaut. His family made sacrifices so he could go to school and he earned a […]
Living Vicariously
A friend of mine has been travelling recently. We are in a group text with several other friends. He went to Africa before Christmas and shared pictures from there, including wildlife he saw on safari, which was very exciting. Now he is in Guatemala for a friend’s wedding and is again keeping us in the […]
God’s Life Directions
Today I visited for a while with an older couple that I know. The gentleman recalled the things he had done that kept him very busy after his “retirement”. He was just wondering what he should do next when he received the scary news that he had cancer. There was some period of time that […]
Still Finding God 