Thanks Living at Thanksgiving
Being thankful amid a culture gasping for breath
Thanks Living at Thanksgiving
Cousin Cletus and Technology
Cousin Rufus on Feelings
Corrie ten Boom: The Power of Forgiveness
Finding Buck
Seven Blessings
Joe, the Professional Beggar
Sophie, spreader of gloom
Gift Your Pastor for Appreciation Month
Angels on the Interstate
Youngest Sibling/Bottom of the Pile--Part Two
Youngest Sibling/Bottom of the Pile
Cousin Rufus at a Weddin'
View from the Empty Nest
Awkward Moments
Why I Hate Camping
When One Man's Trash is His Spouse's Treasure
In Defense of Introverts
How to Be Your Child's Lie Detector
How to Stop a Two-Legged Pest Invasion
Peeling Off Society's Labels
Copy of God's Special Agents
Copy of Dogs and Fireworks: A Match Made in Hades
Copy of We Survived Play in the Good Old Days
Copy of Why Women Carry Purses
Learning from the Experience of others
Ordinary People Who Changed History
Graduation Humor
God Doesn't Call the Qualified; He Qualifies the Called.
Out-of-Gas Car, Out-of-Gas Pastor
Reflections for the National Day of Prayer (Part Three)
Reflections for the National day of Prayer (Part Two)
Reflections on the National Day of Prayer (Part One)
Being Paid for Breathing
Three Years... Switched Gears... Some Fears
Finding the Prodigal
Spring Cleaning Dutch Style
Mentors: Blessings in Shoe Leather
Cousin Rufus Joins the Offended
Introverts vss. Extroverts
I'm Silently Correcting Your Grammar
Cousin Rufus's Opinions on Hirin' and Firin'
Push! (Part Two)
Push! (Part One)
I am a wife and mom who also happens to be an English teacher and a newspaper columnist. And, I am the daughter of one of those armchair wits.
During my childhood, as we sat around the supper table—we were country people who called it supper—our dad told funny stories about things that happened to him that day. And, often he punctuated them with comments about human nature.
It is in tribute to those wonderful insights that I offer this blog, which may make you chuckle and say, “Been there; done that.”