by Kathy Nickerson | Sep 1, 2021 | mercy
I called to complain about our Internet service last week. Or should I say, I called to complain about the lack thereof? We are still in a pandemic, after all. So Netflix feels like an essential service. Plus, everything I do for my mostly-non-paying day jobs...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jul 23, 2021 | mercy
Yes, it is a thing. Evidently. I’m not expecting cards or flowers, though. Gorgeous grandmothers or at least women-of-a-certain-age have always intrigued me. My Aunt Clella McAffee, for instance. She wasn’t my aunt, but a dear church lady who had left our...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 11, 2021 | mercy
After we bought our current home and entered into the Chip & Joanna phase, we thought we’d dig up the bathtub garden that came with the place. (Yes, a bathtub buried in the yard as a flower garden. It was a thing back in the day.) The tub wasn’t...
by Kathy Nickerson | May 28, 2021 | mercy
I remember how we worried the night of your kindergarten graduation. We weren’t sure you could handle those three steps up onto the stage without help. We couldn’t imagine, then, that you would one day become the manager of a state championship boys’...
by Kathy Nickerson | Apr 21, 2021 | happy endings, mercy, The Bible
Last year, my husband suggested we give up paper napkins in favor of the kind we wash. And dry. And fold. Often. It’s a small step. I hope the energy we are using to launder those napkins will be offset by the energy used to manufacture and dispose of the paper...
by Kathy Nickerson | Apr 15, 2021 | mercy
Last year at this time, the magic words in life were still “Please”, “Thank You”, “Grandma’s house”, and “Help me, Jesus!” Today, though, Fully Vaccinated tops all of them except the one about Jesus. The...
