Photo is of our tree 1983.  Ask anyone over the age of 35 in my small town, and they can tell you all about Christmas 1983 because it was so...

Photo Courtesy Kelley Bittner Photography FTC disclaimer:  I received the photo frames from Reed & Barton in exchange for this po...

I think most of us can remember a time we loved the holidays.  Santa Claus. Our grandparents giving us huge hugs -- and even bigger gif...

FTC disclaimer:  Many of my posts contain affiliate links. In February 2014, my mother passed away.  After that, I started preparing thi...

I'm 41 years old, and I'm getting married for the first time in nineteen days.  I never expected to be this old and just now get...

I took RCIA this past year, and had every intention of joining the Church afterwards.  As some of you may remember, Feb 18, I had to leave R...

I just wanted to write.  To someone.  To no one.  Blogging is a way of writing publicly, yet sometimes feels as if I write to no one. Yest...

I have heard the saying that all that matters in a cemetery is the dash between the birth and death dates.  Then it is explained that how yo...

 This is my contribution to the Convergent books Synchroblog . Easter. Resurrection? Right?  Happy memories of children hunti...

I read this concept online at one point in time.  I don't remember where it's from.  It's so accurate I thought it was worth mak...

1.   On February 18, 2014, my life as I knew it ended.  No, I won't get over it.  Life will never go back to "normal".  I'...

I'll be back to blogging soon, but my mother passed away on Tuesday.  While she had been very ill for some time, it was sudden in the fa...