Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem two thousand years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. …Augusta E. Rundel There’s nothing quite …
50 Years and Counting
We had a big day yesterday celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. It’s actually not for a couple more days, but we’re hoping to make it. Whether we do or not – and no one is promised tomorrow – we had a great time celebrating family and love yesterday. It was a little hard for me to look this fifty year …
Love Comes Home – Friends, Family and Fun
“I’m late, I’m late for a very important date!” That’s what I am with this blog post – late like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. But this weekend was a time when I was rushing around like that white rabbit trying to do everything and then some. That’s when I should listen …
A Beautiful Day for a Homegoing
A beautiful day for a funeral – you might be wondering if you read that wrong. But that’s how the preacher started the funeral service for Darrell’s aunt today. Annie Pearl needed a few more weeks to reach her 96th birthday. This picture was taken when she was 91 on one of her rare visits to our house. She was …
Blessings by the Bushel
The unthankful heart …discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds iron, so it will find in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~ Henry Ward Beecher I have so many blessings to count on Thanksgiving Day that it would take me a while if I tried to even …
Food and Family – Recipes for Fun
Thanksgiving is only a week away. It’s almost time for us to start making all those favorite dishes. What are some of the dishes that you have to have on Thanksgiving? Here in Kentucky we have some favorites. Of course, it goes without saying that we love our turkey and dressing. My family never stuffed the turkey. We always made …
The Best Gifts and a Photo to Prove It
Birthdays come but once a year but if you do some finagling, you can make it last a little longer – a week or two at least. Maybe even a month. While you might not get those gifts stuck in amongst bright-colored tissue paper in gift bags or wrapped up with ribbons every day, you might get plenty of gifts …
The Changing Generations
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw The photo is of two generations in my family – my mom and my granddaughter. …
Young and in Love
I’ve been having fun with this picture on my Facebook Author’s page. I had posted a picture of Darrell and me on his birthday last week and mentioned how long we’d been together. A loooonnng time. We met and started dating when I was fourteen and he was seventeen. My parents trusted me too much, I’m thinking now. But it …
Bears and Books
I’m a day late with this because I’ve been running into bears. Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I have been out of touch and internet deprived for the last few days up in one of those cabins perched on a mountainside slope in the Smokies. And I did see a bear. Right on the front …









