Tuesday nights and Anchoring.
If you asked me where I was on Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm from the time I was 8 until the time I was almost 18, I could tell you. (Cue the nerd alert!) I was watching Happy Days. Truth be told, I planned my life around Happy Days. Tuesdays – according to […]
Rocks and Sand.
Have you seen that object lesson with a big glass jar filled with big rocks and sand? Well, there is a big glass jar with big rocks inside and sand filling all the empty space. Can you picture it? I think the first time I saw this visual was in a church lesson and I […]
Ride the wave.
When summer started 4 months ago, one of the first things Darren and I did was go with all the kids – and their kids — to California. There were 12 of us together for several days and it was all we wanted it to be. We loved every minute. At the end of […]
Pasta Mondays.
One of the things my husband remembers most about his growing up years in their small California town is Mondays. Because on Mondays, his beautiful Italian mother made pasta. It was a whole day event and included Old World recipes and hours of simmering sauces and hand cut noodles. He would be the helper […]
You’re making it harder.
We have a house rule about paper towels – whoever uses the last one replaces the roll. It’s pretty straightforward, right? Well, the lengths Darren will go to to be the one NOT to replace the roll have gotten pretty extreme. This afternoon the roll was getting low, so I put a new roll on […]
Slow progress.
My Grandpa Johnson was a renaissance man in every sense of the word. He was a master of multiple disciplines and was not afraid to try anything that sparked his interest – he was a builder, a carpenter, an electrician, a high school teacher, a tennis coach, an air force captain, a solo vocalist, a […]
Just One Thing.
My very large family had a very large amount of family meetings in the years and months before my Dad’s death. At one such meeting, at least 12 of us kids and spouses and our mom were sitting around my very large kitchen table. Our eldest brother-in-law said something that I knew I would want […]
