by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 30, 2014 | mercy
I bought this sweet violet the other day on a whim. It reminded me of one Wendell bought me thirty-five years ago when Mother’s Day and our anniversary fell on the same weekend. Once I reached the car, though, I remembered that I would be going away the next...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 24, 2014 | mercy
I’ve spent 23 of the last 29 days aways from home. Since I’m not normally a world traveler, this is a huge deal for me. And, it wasn’t even a book tour! A bit of it was for vacation. Wahoooo! Lots of it was sitting in hospital rooms watching people I...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 19, 2014 | mercy
Hello, Dear Reader. Here is my prayer for you today: If you are ever thrown down a muddy well and left to die, may you have an Ebed-melech in your life. I was reading about the amazing Jeremiah the prophet and came across that episode where the officials toss him into...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 16, 2014 | mercy
Well, maybe not anything. I probably can’t win the Gold for figure skating at this stage in my life. Especially since I’ve never skated. But… as Lady Catherine de Bourgh says about the pianoforte in Pride & Prejudice, “I’d have been a...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 12, 2014 | mercy
I used to tell our creative children to “discipline their art,” which meant they should write, paint, dance, sing, or sew even when they didn’t feel inspired. Now that they have grown into authors, poets, singers, and policemen, I’m telling...
