I was bap­tized Catholic. Hav­ing grown up being taught its ten­ants, some have tended to stick even though I no longer prac­tice that faith. It has made me real­ize that it does make a dif­fer­ence in our lives whether we want it to or not. And I have cer­tainly done my share of call­ing on […]

Heads up peo­ple!!! Christ­mas is 92 days from today which gives you 91 days to shop!! Just thought I’d do my civic duty and inform one and all. You are welcome.

I am seri­ously ticked. I know…so not like me!!! Some­times I just really need to get up on my soap box and this is one of those times. My hus­band and I decided we wanted to go to the north shore around Duluth for a week­end get­away. Now I know this time of year is […]

Some­one very spe­cial to our fam­ily and espe­cially my daugh­ters died 6 years ago today. He looked at life and decided that was all. He is still missed. Thanks for the gen­tle reminders to my daugh­ter that she was once loved and never for­got­ten. Thanks for let­ting us know there is an after­life. I hope […]

Every once in a while I have a moment of pure joy.Sun­day morn­ing. 8am. The house is quiet. It is a beau­ti­ful cool morn­ing.My kids and their loves sleep soundly through­out the house.My hus­band rests. His daugh­ter, who was ill, is okay.The cof­fee is hot and fresh.I wan­der the house know­ing all my kids are […]

My hus­band and I just returned from an event­ful after­noon and evening. Per our usual “let’s not plan, let’s just go” men­tal­ity, we decided to go to Sioux City Iowa. There was a method to our mad­ness as a week or so ago, my hus­band had read in the paper that on this date, 200 […]