I don’t know if any of you have seen the (kinda) new Oreo “cakesters”. They are an Oreo but the chocolate cookie part is chocolate cake (hence, “cakester”). They’ve been in the market for awhile, but, as I often do, I had not bought any (lead me NOT into “temptation”) until about a month ago. […]
Sometime as a teenager (forgive me for not remembering exactly when) my parents decided that they had a “problem with alcohol” and started attending AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings. It wasn’t long until my dad started attending NA too, and then, of course, “the kids” (that’d be my sisters and I) needed to join in. (For […]
I have vivid memories of the grade school play ground. Four square. Kick ball. Playing “catch and kiss” with the boys. (sssshhhhhh….) Hanging out with my friends. I remember looking across the play ground one day at my “best friend” talking to another girl, only to find out later that they were saying bad things […]
You tempt me to believe that I am worthless, Telling me that I am not capable of doing good, As you lure me into the pit of darkness. You persuade me to believe that I will find my home there. I know that you are a liar. Reaching up to the light in the darkness […]
I don’t think it’s “news” to anyone reading this that there is a LOT going on in the world these days. Famine, disease, natural disasters, stock market crashes. You name it, we seem to be living IN it. As I think about all of this, I have come to understand that oftentimes, we cannot control […]
Many years ago, looking out of the window of my living room, I spotted my boys and the two neighbor boys turning over the concrete “pavers” that had been carefully arranged in a circle around the base of the tree. I gasped, knowing the care and time my husband had taken to stack/arrange those pavers. […]
My oldest son turned fourteen last week. His ‘gift’ was the video game “Rock Band”. The game came complete with a “guitar,” a “drum set” and a “microphone” and is, to me, a ‘glorified’ karaoke-type game. Although I am NOT a karaoke fan, (except if my little sister is singing) I will confess — I […]
First of all, I should say that this is going to be a ‘different’ kind of blog for me; however, I do pray that you can follow it and will get something from it. At Mass tonight, we were reading the “infamous” story in the Gospel of Matthew about the “feeding of thousands” with “five […]
It seems to me that it was about the fourth grade when I started to notice the different writing ‘styles’ of my friends. One friend, Paula, made THE coolest “e.. It looked like it started out as a “c”, then she drew a straight line from the top-right corner to the base of the curve. […]
This morning during my walk, I spotted a momma killdeer and her baby sharing the trail. I could hear the momma continually calling out to her baby as the baby followed. Finally, the trail split. Momma killdeer went straight and crossed the road, while the baby took a right. Noticing the baby had gone astray, […]
