Monday, January 28, 2013

We come to the end

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I am ending this blog. I hope that my writings have helped or inspired you in some way. God Bless.
Sunday, October 28, 2012

The world of politics...

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Never before have I ever, ever become involved in politics like I have this year. I feel like I have been pulled like a magnet into this fru...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Why do we do it?

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Why do we tend to spend precious time and emotional effort, which may threaten our relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ,...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

An old Doris Day song..

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Part of her song goes... "Ups, downs   Ins, outs, highs, lows  Anyway the wind blows" .... her song relates to love...but thes...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Life...

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Life sometimes can be a real struggle...for everyone. We just do the best we can, with God's help. We pick our self up when we fall. We ...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

I am still here...

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I hope to post to this blog again, soon.
Friday, July 9, 2010

Returning

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I have been ill for many months but I am back and hoping to post on my blogs again.
Friday, July 17, 2009

Your friend is struggling

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How do you/can you help a friend who is struggling with depression so badly that they shut you out (and maybe others, too)? You want to he...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

The computer

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Does everyone else get as much enjoyment and benefit as I do from using the computer? I use Microsoft Word to do all my writings, which incl...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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How true this is! Some of our associations with others are to the degree and depth that when we are apart, our heart indeed yearns for that...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Patience and kindness

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Two good qualities of character are that of having patience and kindness. It does not matter how old you are, or how old the people are tha...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The aging process

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I just finished writing to my friend who is having a hard time, like me, enduring the aging process. Sometimes the natural ways of life are ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Learning who we came from

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Click on images to see larger .... (on the pedigree chart, put YOU as #1 and then work backward on your family lines) We each have and live...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Simplify our life

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Sometimes we can get so caught up in the mechanics and rush of living our life that we forget to MAKE time to relax and enjoy it. That’s whe...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Old photos jog our memories

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I have been going through some of my old photos from High School and other times. It is the most amazing thing to look at these photos and b...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Go feed the ducks !

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Life and times are getting pretty scary. Some of us are really struggling in many ways. We need to have an outlet that will allow us to forg...
Monday, January 12, 2009

A time for hope, faith and trust

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With things so uncertain in our lives right now, it certainly can bring with it a myriad of feelings and thoughts about the future. It can b...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

First love...and true love

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These are two different loves that I have experienced in my life. Each is totally different in so many ways from the other. My first love wa...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Snow Angels

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Those who live in snow country have the delightful opportunity to make snow angels. You are never too old to try it...it brings back the chi...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Time steadily ticks away

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Wouldn’t it be nice to stop or slow down time once in a while and to adjust it to our liking? If we are hurrying to get somewhere we could j...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Needy ?

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I consider myself to be a needy type person at times. Is it okay to be needy once in a while? Once in a while? Just think of the opportuni...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Building walls

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image from: http://whoislauralee.blogspot.com/ The walls I am talking about, are those we build around ourselves. There are many situations...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Pride and vanity

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Beware lest a person exceeds in pride and vanity. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think ...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Our efforts

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All the myriad of activities we do each day, takes some amount of effort on our part. Some of that effort that we expend is greater one time...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Trying something new

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As a rule, generally I am not one to be adventuresome and try something new…but I surprised myself the other day and rode a 4- wheeler all b...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

We all need to know that someone cares

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It must be human nature...and need...to have the longing to know that SOMEONE cares about us. To know that someone thinks and remembers abou...
Friday, October 10, 2008

Struggle

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What is it that causes some of our days to be happy and easy, and then some of our days to be sad and difficult? It’s almost as if we are ve...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The playground of life

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We can view life as very serious, or very humorous, or very adventuresome, or very difficult, or a mixture of all of these. Most of us I thi...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Actors and Actresses

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I watch a lot of movies. It is one of the excellent therapies I use for my depression, and it also serves as a wonderful relaxation for me w...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Try it....you might just LOVE it !!

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Bella Swan and Edward Cullen Vegetarian vampires, good werewolves, a 17 year old girl, tender romantic love, bonding friendships.....what m...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Birds of a feather, flock together

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We have all heard that old saying, haven’t we? But have we really pondered the words and the meaning of it? My thoughts about it are: we fee...
Monday, September 8, 2008

There are all types of friends

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There is the friend who, after 6 months or more, finally cares enough to give you a call. Then there is the friend who can’t find their othe...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

Lonely

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It is tremendously hard to lose a spouse to death. Time somewhat softens the pain...but the loneliness still remains, ever reminding me that...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Teach children how to be a good future husband or wife

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Being a good spouse in a marriage does not come to us instinctively. One has to learn and understand the basic elements of kindness, patienc...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Aging

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There are many laughs and jokes about the aging process. It seems like we can compare notes pretty good with others who are in the same cy...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Individual critique

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The dictionary shows the word critique as meaning: a critical review; the art of criticism. Ok, with that said, my focus will now be turned ...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Life's trials...a way to help others

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We all suffer through life’s trials and tests. Some of us struggle and suffer more than others and some of us learn great lessons from it. M...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Liking yourself and feeling comfortable in your own skin

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(the above illustration is from the following website): http://www.joethegeek.info/samples.html We human creatures have so many different p...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

America's old Route 66 highway

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I was a teenager in the 50’s. During those years growing up, it was a carefree fun time for me. My eye view of life and America was differen...
Sunday, July 6, 2008

Our idiosyncrasies

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During a conversation with someone lately, I shared some deep concern I had for some personal behavioral feelings I was having. I was surpri...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Are we too soft?

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As I sat, thinking back 200 years ago and the life styles and ways they had of doing/accomplishing things, I personally am ever so gratefu...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Having faith and hope when times are rough

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With the uncertain economic conditions and natural disasters all around us, it is hard not to feel uneasy and yes, scared. But striving ha...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

If we are prepared...

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With the economy the way it is and the “signs of the times” upon us, it is more pressing than ever to brace our self by making preparations ...
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Heeding promptings

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I have recently learned a painful, sorrowful lesson on ignoring mental promptings. For quite a few weeks now, I have had promptings to backu...
Monday, June 2, 2008

Romantic Roses

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I just got back home from a trip to Colorado where I had shared in the joy of one of my granddaughters weddings. It was a beautiful, wonderf...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Mitch Albom's books

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These are two books written by Mitch Albom, that have been made into movies. I have not read the books yet, but I thought the movies are ver...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Looking back in time

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It is rather interesting for me to remember back into my youth and young adult years and analyze the sort of person I was then. What my valu...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Writing...anyone can do it

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Some people seem to think that to be a writer requires special talents and abilities. But I feel anyone can do it. The words that form our w...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Mend the broken bridge

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Families are so precious and important in the scheme and plan of our life. We may be to the point where we have not fully appreciated or und...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Watching kids at play

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My daughter has a children’s day-care in her home. I live here too, and help her. The children she cares for range in ages from 5 months to ...