Category: Archives of Old Blogs

Whew…it has been quite a ride since last Friday.  Actually, more like since last Monday when I got home from Hawaii.  The ups of being healthy and back with my kiddos…the downers of grieving, the ups of the good...

At the heart, I think but am not totally sure, is the concept of GRACE and MERCY.  I one heard these terms defined like this: Grace – getting what we do not deserve…such as a God completely wiping out our...

If you want to participate in a triathlon, a marathon or century ride – what do you think is the best thing you can do to prepare yourself? * Eat right, get lots of sleep and take recovery time...

As I go on with this series of singleness and how the sorrow that some feel in singleness is not an isolated incident to singleness alone – I am realizing that it is really about expectations that ALL of...

I had been writing my post about what to do with grief in my head all week long.  Last week…before I got sidetracked with Friday’s unraveling of events – the subject of my next post.  Yet, I wanted to...

Wow – seems that I have certainly hit a nerve of some kind this singleness issue.  I have to admit that I still find it amazing that – while my blog has a small following – that still there...

I have been silent for a while for a purpose…I was on a much needed retreat to the great state of Hawaii.  Oh yeah – suffering I know…but after being sick for going on 4 months a little R&R...

Stereotypes are an interesting concept to say the least.  I remember doing at least one “real world experiment” in high school English class to help us understand how stereotypes develop, why they might be helpful and why they might...

Was over at (in)courage just now and read a post called When a Comment Breaks Your Heart.  I shared my two cents (or maybe 5 cents, boy I can’t keep things to a minimum can I?) and thought I...

Taking a much needed break from my construction work to move back to a post I wanted to do about1) apologizing to mena) looking at stereotyping (another post, some other time when I am up to it) Apology to...