by Kathy Nickerson | Sep 20, 2017 | mercy
Not by hanging from a tree. Though, you are welcome to do so if you wish. But, I prefer the Mike Herron method of celbrating autumn. Mike visited us here in the Midwest several years ago. I think he might have been living in Texas at the time....
by Kathy Nickerson | Sep 11, 2017 | mercy
2,753 at the World Trade Center. 184 at the Pentagon. 40 in a quiet field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I don’t write about politics or social justice. Although, I would still be interested if we ever develop a cabinet office for National Mother....
by Kathy Nickerson | Sep 5, 2017 | mercy
Labor Day made me think again of one of my favorite books, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life, by Gene Edward Veith, Jr. I know that may sound stuffy, but I promise you the pages contain some sparkling gems. Like this one: “We often speak...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 21, 2017 | mercy
We live in a 98% zone for the eclipse that happened this week. My husband and I assumed that would be “almost as good” as the total eclipse. We might have been wrong about that. Plus, we had clouds in our little village, so we only got one peek at the...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 16, 2017 | mercy
Reading is magical. We all know it. Even folks who don’t profess to love reading have to admit that nothing else can take us out of the world quite like a book. Movies have their own magic. But that is another post. Books take us on adventures, open our...