by Kathy Nickerson | Aug 3, 2009 | family, happy endings
I’d like to think I’ve learned not to take life for granted. But, here it is, only three years after Serenity Beth was diagnosed with rare, aggressive cancer, and already I’ve dismissed the brass band instead of marching it down the street on her...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 21, 2009 | family, happy endings
Forty years ago, a man walked on the moon. It was truly incredible. Families everywhere gathered around their television sets to watch one giant step for mankind. And our dad missed the whole show. We lived on a farm where television reception was spotty. We could...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 17, 2009 | Friendship, happy endings, writing
I rewrote Chapter 24 of my work-in-progress last night because it was too sad. Actually, the story was probably fine, but life is feeling a little too sad right now. One of our good friends is critically ill. Another is fighting breast cancer. Two others are...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 10, 2009 | happy endings, The Bible, writing
We’re having an unusually green July around here. Usually the lawns without sprinkler systems are already turning brown and crunchy this time of year. Instead, they are thick and green. Foliage is lush beside the country roads and everything looks more like...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 29, 2009 | happy endings, mercy
We’re throwing a party in our neighborhood this weekend. Local officials estimate 20,000 people could show up over the entire two-day event. That is a pretty big deal since only about 200 of us actually live here. Our community is famous for being strange....
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 18, 2009 | family, happy endings
Charity and her family at the beach this summer.It was a crazy time to have a baby. Wendell was in his second year of medical school, and we were living on student loans that had already exceeded ten years of his previous salary. We had also exceeded the highly...
