Hey all, My brilliant and well-read daughter, Whitney, is taking over the blog today to give you the run-down on great reading! I love her mix of fun, educational and inspirational books. Enjoy! —————————————————- I realized while journaling the other day that I can pretty much think back on […]

  As the year winds down, I’ve been sifting through the memories of 2016, and got stuck on this one today:     I started this year worrying that I would try to outrun grief.  This was a silly fear because it turns out sorrow is pretty light on its […]

So, let’s talk about widows dating, shall we? I guess we could talk about anyone dating, but widows experience some issues that others don’t and I think they’re worth mentioning.  In no particular order, we have:   Grief from the loss of a spouse we loved Children watching and dealing […]

  Wow, friends, this has been a long week. I was supposed to speak at Westside this weekend and I did – once. I spoke at the Saturday service with no trouble and then went to a birthday party where many were fighting a stomach bug. As I got into […]

    I cannot explain to you the affection I feel for the ALS FancyDance.  For those of you new to my family’s story, the FancyDance was born when we decided to raise money for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and were tired of sad disease-related fundraisers. My husband was fighting […]