1. Everyone loves to laugh. 2. Figuring out what makes someone else laugh helps you know and understand that person better. Reading my old Calvin & Hobbes books last night, Erin giggled and giggled. She’s old enough to get the humor (some of it anyway) and that’s a fun new discovery. Alex gets puns....
Category: Family & Marriage
The Dead Groundhog
So. This morning, my dumb dogs deposited a dead groundhog in my garage sometime between Eric’s departure and our frantic get-in-the-van-or-we-will-miss-the-bus hoopla. I saw them wandering around the back yard with Pip, my BIL’s dog, about 6:30 a.m., and figure they had dropped off the dead thing IN my garage, you know, for safe-keeping,...
Just Stop Right There
So I typically behave as if pain is to be avoided at all costs. You know, get comfortable, stay comfortable. Repeat. And for pretty much all my life, anything that interrupted this cycle was bad. Capital BAD. But I’m finding, surprisingly, that it’s really not. The last year (and more) has been an interesting study in...
Perspective
Things that are on my mind today… The health needs of a pastor friend and a young man in our school district That those in power don’t seem to see that wisdom always wants MORE input, never less That people believe it’s okay to destroy someone else’s career, income, or reputation simply because they disagree...
In a Funk
This morning, I woke up in a funk. I was tired from a busy Tuesday. I was tired from the drama and discourse of the last week. I was grumpy and really wanted everyone to just leave me alone. (So of course, they needed me even when I was going to the bathroom first thing...