by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 29, 2011 | writing
Saturday was a rare Stay-Home-Day for me. (That’s what some of our grandchildren call Saturday. In my day, Saturday was called Cartoon Day, but now cartoons are on 24/7, so that doesn’t work. But, I digress.) Which is exactly what I did on Saturday!!! For...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 25, 2011 | The Bible
I have used the same computer program at work for nearly six years. In the third year, I discovered I could actually ask the program to print daily charge sheets by appointment time! Before that, I’d shuffle through twenty or thirty alphabetical papers to get...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 22, 2011 | happy endings, mercy
My husband and I live in a small town. I’ve mentioned this before. 45minutes to the nearest Starbucks. No stoplights. Everybody knows your name (and your business). But a few things here are unique. Unlike the small towns shrinking all around us, ours is...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 16, 2011 | family
Our family speaks in code. We use movie quotes from our collective memory to express big things in small words. For instance, when the last of our eighteen little campers drove off into the sunset Monday evening, the appropriate line would have been, “Well,...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 8, 2011 | family, happy endings
It is a big week at our house. We are moving furniture, buying groceries, and girding up our loins. On Thursday, our two-bedroom bungalow will fill up with more than a dozen grandchildren from three states. Yes, we are slightly insane. I’ve bought camp cots. And...
