by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 17, 2020 | mercy
This picture is from one of my favorite Christmas memories. We drove five and a half hours to celebrate an early Christmas with all our kids and grandkids. Since no one had a big house at that time, Gramps and I hosted the party in the conference room of the hotel...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 3, 2020 | mercy
We didn’t do this with our grandchildren after Thanksgiving. And we won’t be doing this with them in a few weeks. I won’t do this with my mother and siblings. And we won’t pose for an update of this. But, I...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 18, 2020 | mercy
It was 1968, and the world was going crazy. I don’t use that word lightly. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were both assassinated. The Viet Nam war heated up right along with protests against it. Riots, marches, and mayhem surrounded an entire...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 11, 2020 | mercy
Veteran’s Day. Armistice Day. Choose your title for these 24 hours where we honor those who have sacrificed so much for our nation. Soldiers, sailors, airmen and women, guardsmen and women, and marines. Plus the family members they left behind. Sometimes...
by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 4, 2020 | mercy
Grandpa Jim sat at the lunch table with us at the local café one afternoon. He had lost his sweet wife not long before, and the sadness still showed in his smile. But, that day, he told us he was thinking of paying a call on a widow in our community. His eyes...
