Soft but not smooshy
I have not eaten avocados much throughout my life, so I am not an avocado aficionado. My daughter, on the other hand, eats avocados all the time. Therefore, she is very knowledgeable about such things. In my endeavors…
Making memories in the storm
Hubby and I had planned to walk a nature trail with our daughter Sunday afternoon. We had been looking forward to this all week. This was our daughter’s favorite walking trail near her home, and she had been…
Yellow is just as good as bright pink
I ended the last blog post with the question: “If your life was an airplane elevation color, at what elevation level with God would you be?” In answering that question personally for myself, my immediate “blink” reaction was: …
Elevation levels
Being new to the flight tracking website (“adsb-exchange”) it was completely lost on me that the different colors of the airplanes had any significance at all. The planes coming across our backyard at a southwest diagonal are always…
Backtracking the path of our life
Hubby and I were sitting out in the yard enjoying one of the very last nice days of summer. Hubby was busy doing something math-y on the computer, while I was preoccupied on my phone watching all the…
Not alone
Hubby got the news that he needed to travel for work to Philadelphia. It was a real blow to both of us! This current season of caregiving for aging parents has been really difficult! Even though it had…
You never know who is watching your life.
Usually in September there is a fighter-jet flyover for the opening games of the University of Washington Huskies football season. Without fail, hubby and I will be hanging out around the house and … “Whooooosh!!” … there go…
You can’t board the ship without your SeaPass card
When hubby and I took our cruise this past summer from Athens to Rome, we were given a SeaPass card during the boarding process. This SeaPass card was linked to our account and verified that we were indeed…
Lessons from Caregiving
In my current season of caregiving for aging parents I now find myself on my hands and knees each day washing out incontinence pads. At first, I was running them through my washing machine each day. But they…
Hiding our dirty laundry
This past June hubby and I had the opportunity to take a "Journeys of Paul" cruise with a group from Prestonwood Baptist Church, through Inspiration Travel. Our very first port stop was Kusadasi, Turkey. A tour of the…