General Blog Posts
Popularity was the topic of my Tuesday blog at the Storyteller Squad this week, and I’d like to direct you to it today because I think this pandemic of insecurity is getting out of hand with many people, including me. I think social media exasperates it. Growing up I wasn’t in the popular crowd. Quiet…
The holidays approach at lightning speed as they do every December. This season of celebrating Thanksgiving, the birth of Jesus, and the possibilities of a fresh, new year is supposed to be the most wonderful time, yet it can be difficult for some. Some holiday stressors are grief, finances, seasonal changes, loneliness, and overloaded schedules.…
Today’s the day I relaunch my blog. Here is what you can expect each week in my blogs. I’ll still include blogs to encourage you to embrace who you are and to be a God pleaser rather than a people pleaser. (I need reminders that God loves me, so I figure others do too.) But…
A story of a beaver at large reminded me of the blessings I have living in a small town. In my community, each week, the police blotter announces pets causing problems, usually a dog at large or a cat at large. Sometimes owners get spoken with. At other times, the animal at large cannot be…
Taffy. Yum. Sometimes one catches a taffy watching a parade, but the most common parade candy—at least in our town—would be Tootsie Rolls, but alas, that is a chocolate flavored, taffy-like candy. But for me, salt water taffy reminds me of my dad and the fair. I like that better than any other kind of…
Every girl dreams of having a pony, right? Okay, so maybe not every girl, but I did, and I know my daughters did, although they never got one. They did take riding lessons though and got all the way to learning to jump before the pandemic shut everything down. When I was in elementary school,…
Father’s Day is Sunday—the day to celebrate our dads. Dads come in all sizes, shapes, temperaments and abilities. Dads are important. My dad taught through example. My dad grew up the second oldest of eight. His dad farmed. His grandad farmed. He farmed and still farms his 100-acre beef farm. He is dad to four…
Each summer, my parents packed my siblings and me up and sent us off to Grandma and Grandpa’s house in the cozy town of Wiota for a week. Most of my memories of our stays started on the Fourth of July. We’d claim our bedrooms and then settle in to watch the big parade behind…
During the end of my fifth-grade year or the beginning of my sixth-grade year—I don’t recollect the exact time, my class put together items to put in a time capsule to be dug up either in 2000 or 2020. (I think. It seemed far off then.) That’s a great many years ago—over 40, gulp. Time…
Attacks flourish around us. How do you protect yourself? We seek methods to protect ourselves online, in public, and in the privacy of our own homes. We don’t have tall, barbed wire fences or guards around us, but we invest in software and use caution and wisdom in our decisions, keeping alert. Number of attacks…