Choose This Day

I’m in one of those moods today.  As soon as I answer my phone those friends who know me well ask, “what’s wrong?”  I’ve been told a million times that my voice betrays me.  Sigh.   There are some real and some only imagined reasons for my current disposition.  But that’s not really what I want […]

To Dream or Not to Dream

Last night I got a phone call from a friend who is involved in a music group with me.  Mid conversation, it dawned on me that the talk we were sharing sounded very much like I was talking to myself.  He expressed his discontent with what feels like mediocrity or stagnation in his life.  He […]

Core Four

This weekend my girlfriends and I had our “getaway.”  At least three times a year three of my closest friends and I kiss our families good-bye and head for one night in a hotel room to be friends, be girls, be real, and be refreshed.  It usually looks like having dinner Friday evening, returning to […]

Study War No More

In honor of our military men and women who serve our country out of love, duty, and pride: thank you.

I look forward to the day when the peace of God reigns forever throughout our world and among our brothers and sisters everywhere, in every land, among every tribe and every tongue.
Revelation 21: 3-4
I heard […]

Happily Ever After

I touched on something very sensitive for me in yesterday’s blog.  It may be part of the reason I’m having such a difficult time with this whole ‘take no thought for your life’ thingamajig! I realize that I live in a bit of a fantasy world.  This is what I mean.  I have a deep […]

Take No Thought, Pt. II

 
Since yesterday morning I’ve received two calls informing me that two separate people who have impacted my life greatly have either died or are going to do so very soon.  One is a dear friend and old boy friend from college.  He had a heart attack this Saturday; he was just 36 years old.  The […]

Take No Thought

This was an awesome weekend!  It began with a massage Saturday afternoon that was everything a massage should be; relaxing, healing, releasing and all that good stuff.  My husband had one too; his was so delightful he fell asleep.  I suggested to him that falling asleep means the massage really worked, he disagreed saying “it […]

Art Appreciation: 101

We spent the afternoon in the Louvre today. It was, at the risk of sounding way too ordinary, amazing. Yes, there was Winged Victory. And, uh huh, we saw the lady herself, Mona Lisa. And Venus de Milo also majestically stood her ground. Really, the art took my breath away.

As […]

I Think I Could . . . Maybe

I could live here: Paris. I could. I know, I know . . . easy to say during a vacation when all you are obliged to do is to try out different restaurants, browse cute area shops, and lazily discover a deeper appreciation for art in the numerous museums conveniently located on nearly […]

Yes. Si. Oui.

That’s what my husband answered to the French waitress when she asked him a question . . . Yes.  Si.  Oui.  It, needless to say, was funny - and I totally understood his language confusion.  As we have, together and individually, navigated this beautiful, artful, and old foreign land of Paris, we have stumbled our […]

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