by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 28, 2010 | family
Tonight, I cooked supper to the background music of four children playing, chatting, and coloring in my kitchen. They were not the same four children who did that routinely twenty-some years ago. But they took me back to those days. I experienced the...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 21, 2010 | family, writing
This is a shameless plug. I’ve always believed if I checked the mailbox faithfully rain or shine, one day it would reward me with wonderful things. Two of those arrived this week. First: (here’s the plug) This book compiled by James Stuart Bell with a...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 18, 2010 | Friendship, happy endings
This is Dan. He is one of our extraordinary son-in-laws and also a gifted musician who can play everything from the keytar to the piano flute. Dan leads a band called findingBethel, with his friends Darin and Jared. Last week they played a gig at the local county...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 13, 2010 | happy endings
Five years ago, Wendell and I sat in a tragic room with this beautiful young woman and her husband. We were joined by a sad doctor, a silent nurse, a rare and aggressive cancer, and a positive pregnancy test. Afterward, they ushered us out a back door into the...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 9, 2010 | family, happy endings, Uncategorized
On Thursday afternoon, I asked our ten-year-old grandson, John Michael, “So, where do you think Lebron James will end up after his big announcement tonight?” (In case you are sports-challenged like me, I’ll fill you in from what I learned on Fox...