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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:  This post contains affiliate links. I wanted to write, again, about grief and the holidays.  Most people think of grief...

I don't remember meeting Donnie.  As an active teenager in district events in the Church of the Nazarene in the 1980s, there were all th...

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

FTC disclosure:   This post may contain affiliate links. Photo courtesy Kelley Bittner Photography October 7th.   Just another day in ...

I woke this morning with an old Christian song going through my head, "It's time to get back to the land of the living".   Whi...

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...

In the non-denominational church I grew up in, Advent was never mentioned.  When I started going to a Nazarene Church, the Advent candles we...

Experiencing the Loss of a Family Member: Discover the Path to Hope and Healing by H. Norman Wright My rating: 5 of 5 stars I hate that ...

I posted this on my Facebook status yesterday: Went to church at the  Church of the Nazarene this morning. Opening song was Number 434 in ...

Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Anna Whiston-Donaldson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don't know why I have been seeking out memo...

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...