Month: March 2006

Guys and games just go together. I’m not talking about just sports – any kind of game will do – even if they have to make it up. The last couple of weekends, we visited with family. Without a television playing, without a sporting activity to attend, the guys created games to play. A couple…

One of the current TV shows is called “24” … as in the longest 24 hours a person has ever experienced. Each one hour episode represents one hour in the 24 hour day. We happened on a marathon of one season … so we saw all of one day in one day. In His life…

My seven-year old granddaughter did not want to go to bed the night she stayed at my house. The clock and her tired whine said that she needed sleep. I listened for a moment to her whiny protest, looked at the clock and then at her. “You can cry and whine as loud as you…

In a time when we expend billions of dollars to legally contest the distribution of dollars for education, take time to pause and give thanks that we have an established educational system and that educators – such as my daughter, sister, brother, aunt, grandmothers, sister-in-law and many of my friends – can teach any and…

Culture shock hit me fast and furious my first year in southern Arkansas. At first it was simply the children who answered my questions with a respectful, “Yes, Ma’am.” One little girl smiled and nodded her head in beat with her frequent “yes Ma’ams.” I thought she was mocking me. At school, my own children…

Well, what do you know, all those advertisements about eating your oatmeal and lower your cholesterol are right! I didn’t consciously sit down to eat oatmeal intending to lower my cholesterol. I don’t do things just because someone says “eat it, it’s good for you.” Oatmeal made my menu about once or twice a year…