Month: September 2021

  • Ready to go … almost

                If leaving an item or two behind hints a reluctance to depart, Dear One obviously had mixed feelings about attending a men’s retreat last weekend. Whatever his feelings about the weekend’s events, I welcomed the prospect of a couple days by myself. Before Dear One could go, we needed to drop a couple packages off…

  • Laundry then and now

     I watched the young woman hoist a basket of laundry, and I commented, “More wash to do?” “With children, there is laundry every day,” she said abruptly. Somehow it reminded me of a conversation with a friend who picked up her sons after a morning at my house. “So what did you do?” “I washed…

  • The seatbelt that saved her life twice

    The screech of tires, smashing of glass and impact of metal against metal abruptly ended my friend’s ride home from work. Having her car totaled and herself bruised shocked her. In time however it revealed a life saving miracle.   “A school bus was crossing in front of me at the crossing. I stopped. A truck…