Last week, I can honestly say I’m not really sure why I was so incredibly busy…too busy to write, apparently. Looking back at my calendar, I had a date with my hubby (who was blissfully home most of the week), a doctor’s appointment, and…? Nothing else there. But life was apparently too much to […]
Category: family
Where Has the Year Gone?
One year ago this week, my home for sixteen years was wrapped up, boxed, bagged, and loaded into a moving van to head half way across the country—back to my childhood home of Texas. It was to be our homecoming. Our empty nest years to enjoy each other in a fun and vibrant city setting—a […]
Home…Is Where the Heart Is
Home. A thought that’s been heavy on my heart and constantly on my mind of late. This is my first holiday season, my first Christmas, without either of my parents, and I have been feeling the loss of home. But what exactly is that? The dictionary actually has eleven different definitions for the word “home,” […]
The Balancing Act: A Mixed Bag of Emotions
The year of 2013 is almost half over…wow, how did that happen? It seems like only yesterday I was snuggled up in my Christmas hibernation thinking about the coming year…and now that year is six months gone. For the new year, I chose one word to focus on, to become closer to God through this […]
Saying Goodbye…
My mother passed from this earth quietly on the morning of March 30. She left us (snuck away, she did) as we all headed to the kitchen for a quick cup of coffee (it had been a long night of bedside vigils and driving across country for all of us, and looked as if the […]
Ventana de Cielo
When we first moved to the North Georgia foothills, I was so in love with the beautiful scenery and our cozy home, that I gave our home a nickname: Ventana de Cielo–window of heaven. I felt as if we were living on the very edge of heaven and, if we chose to open our eyes […]
Tribute to a Real Lady…and A Reminder to Always Make Time
It seems that I am meant to spend my time writing this week. An article for my blog, an article for the cancer foundation newsletter, an essay for a contest, and another one for submission to a magazine…and now, I am writing to share my memories of one of the few real ladies that I […]
life in between... 