Unseen air currents
Someone’s birthday was approaching. It just so happened that when I walked into the grocery store to pick up a few items, lo and behold! … there were the most adorable “fruit” & “vegetable” balloons floating here and…
No matter how hard we try … we can’t run away.
Hubby and I have a family member who has chosen to cut all ties with the family … changing address, changing phone number, changing email, disconnecting all social media, changing last name, etc. … This family member does…
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…
All the free pizza and sandwiches you want!
I was fixing hubby’s turkey and swiss sandwich this morning as he was getting ready to leave for work, when something on the lunchmeat packaging caught my attention: “NEVER EVER GIVEN.” “Boy, isn’t that the truth!” I immediately…