by Kathy Nickerson | Nov 27, 2014 | family, happy endings, mercy
This is one of those Thanksgivings when things didn’t go according to Hallmark at our house. Or Norman Rockwell, if you are from that era. We’ve had other years when the holiday season was interrupted by illness, of course. I remember the year my dad had...
by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 6, 2012 | happy endings, mercy
Our family is celebrating some great wedding anniversaries this month. But these happy marriages are just a glimmer of the Happily Ever After yet to come. They are just a trailer for The Greatest Story Ever Told. Once upon a time, people lived in a perfect world. (for...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 30, 2012 | happy endings
Our four children shared one bathroom all their growing-up years. For my loft-dwelling city friends, a two-bathroom house may sound like a luxury. (It should have felt that way to me, since we didn’t even have one bathroom in our house until I was ten years...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 21, 2012 | happy endings
I married this man when I was eighteen years old, which seems rather insane in this era. But we married at then end of the Viet Nam war, at a time when many people had watched their future march off in a uniform and never come home again. We were all about grabbing...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 11, 2012 | family, happy endings
We attended a wonderful family reunion this weekend where my husband’s big brother and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. We are all much too young for such a milestone, of course. But, there it was. As part of the ceremony, Rees and Frankie...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 3, 2012 | happy endings
When my grandfather prayed in public, he often asked God to, “Reconcile us to the changing scenes of this life.” He wasn’t a movie buff. He didn’t even watch much television. But he understood that life is a story unfolding all around us. And,...
