A Week of Milestones

Last week was big at our house. We celebrated the tenth birthday of our first grandchild and reveled in the memories of his birth and all the deliciousness he has provided for our clan since then. John Michael is the adored elder cousin for everyone else, and he...

The Little Foxes

According to King Solomon, it is the little foxes that ruin the grapevines. (Song of Solomon, 2:15). I’ve often heard this explained as the little sins we think don’t amount to anything that eventually grow up to become snarling predators that eat us...

A Legacy of Spunk

We went to visit my husband’s mother this weekend. She will be ninety in a few weeks, and she is thinking of buying a laptop. Seriously. She spends the summers here in Missouri with her only daughter and then moves to Florida around Thanksgiving to spend the...

Confidentially Yours

I’m  not sure when we started signing our letters to one another this way. I think it was about the time we decided boys were cute. It became even more important to us when we discovered they could also break your heart. Judy and I shared all the typical things...

One Generation will Tell Another

This is a picture of my father, who is 83, and my daughter, who is twenty-something, and my granddaughter, who is not quite one. And every time I see it I blink back tears. My father had a heart attack before any of his grandchildren were even born. Most of the men in...