Giving

Giving

Tis the season of giving, sparked by Giving Tuesday on December 1. I hope you gave your heart out that day along with lots of dough (not the bakery kind, though I posted about that last week). If you didn’t replace the jingle of personally pocketed coins with...
I just went over to bake Christmas cookies…

I just went over to bake Christmas cookies…

I just went over to communally bake cookies and I was barely ten feet and ten minutes inside the door when she pounced without an ounce of compunction to ask: “Do you say ‘Merry Christmas’ in greeting at this time of year?” Well, I do. But, her...
Giving

Living Life as a Miracle: Broken

Dang! The ancient stretch cord holding the beads and bangles of a Christmas bracelet broke, and all of the baubles came tumbling down. Just as we headed out to church service on Sunday. My wrist would not be holiday-adorned. Crunch! I nearly fell as I stepped from the...
Alzheimer’s App?

Alzheimer’s App?

“There’s an app for that.” It’s become as ubiquitous as “Can you hear me now? or “Ask Siri.” While smart phone’s innards are famously smarter than the computers aboard Apollo 13, the ill-fated mission that limped back to...
Reformed

Reformed

There’s little worse than being cornered into conversing with a reformed _________. Insert your own term from this list, please: alcoholic, sinner, fatty, cigarette smoker, slut… (or tell me your own in a comment) If ever there was a toxic talker,...