Month: April 2000

I don’t live near enough to my grandchildren to watch them grow-up. Thanks to their mother’ phone calls and e-mails I keep up. She writes that the 3-year-old recently had her first cavities filled. The pre-schooler bravely fasted from 7:30 the night before her appointment until after her 10:30 a.m. appointment. She was calm and…

I have entered the age of the Internet and am loving it. I could easily be swept away in the convenience and luxury of it all. Last month, I quit window shopping at my favorite on-line bookstore, filled up a book bag with a heap of books and audio book tapes and paid for it…

Three years ago I gave my daughter a permanent magic marker to label everything she was taking on a mission trip to San Salvador. Last fall she left for college bearing only a driver’s license with her name and address on it. It has taken ears, but I have learned to let her go without…

Disaster has seeped through our laundry room the past few months. It began with a new iron. Its tail acted as a spring to tip over the iron throwing it on the ceramic tile. It broke the iron’s handle, snapped off the base and shattered the dial. My husband repaired it several times until I…