In life we all must make choices that we don’t really want to make. A lover we don’t want to break up with, a job we really want to quit but can’t, a test we really don’t want to take, or in this case a pet you really don’t want to give up, but you […]

It may be because I keep facing the same event year that makes me ponder the afterlife. I have worked hard at remaining 29, but the anniversaries of that 29th birthday keep growing! I have often said that God loves me so much that He will not make me live here forever and then I […]

Preparing For Cold Weather Greetings from the island on this very windy Jan 12 morning.  As I sit at my little kitchen table having coffee, I can hear and feel the steady 30 mph winds, with gusts to 50 mph, blowing across Matagorda Bay and onto this barrier island.  When I step outside, the blustery […]

COVID – no matter how you feel about it, whether you think it’s real or not, whether you think it’s no more than a cold or once (or is) a major health threat to the entire world, can be a real pain in the backside. I’ve been blessed with having it twice, once during what […]

Like each of you, I have had many new beginnings in my life: Times of entering into unknown territory when I lacked knowledge, experience, and sense. Leaving college, a mixture of bravado, excitement and sorrow filled my mind as I cannonballed into life seventeen hundred miles away from anyone who knew or cared about me. […]