2019 was quite the year. I fell and injured my back 3 times. Hubby and I went to Disneyland. We won a new car. I read 175 books. I fostered a mama cat and watched her bring 5 babies into this world. Three of them still live here. We got two puppies. Yes, I do…
For as long as I can remember, I've been in pain of one kind or another. I broke my wrist at 6. I started getting headaches when I was 8 or 9. I injured my back while sledding when I was 11 or 12. I sprained my wrists and ankles a lot in 6th &…
Have you ever watched a nature show and the narrator says some stuff that you just can't help but talk back to? No? Maybe that's just me. Sometime last year I was watching this show about some cheetahs in the African Savannah (I think). And the narrator was saying in his fine, British-accented voice, "If…
If you like books as much as I do, you will be able to relate to how excited I was when I learned that Emily P. Freeman was releasing a new book. I pre-ordered it as soon as it was available for pre-ordering. And then I had to wait. Waiting can be so hard when…
I don't think I've ever liked going to the doctor. I think I was traumatized as a kid. Nevertheless, I've grown accustomed to going since I've had issues that I've needed a doctor's help with. My blood pressure still goes up a bit every time I have to go to the doctor's office. My heart…
Seeing as this is the time of year when my husband and I tended to go visit Hawaii, I decided to watch a Hallmark movie that I had recorded that was set in Puerto Rico. And there were palm trees and a beach and sunburned feet. It was a fun movie. Even with the hurricane.…
Stick with me here. I'm not talking about classroom discipline or how to discipline your child or your dog. We're talking spiritual disciplines. Like meditation, prayer, fasting, stewardship, study, contemplation, confession, solitude, gratitude, self-examination, silence, and celebration. Before you say that these don't sound spiritual in the Bible sense or maybe you really don't like…
One of the Advent books I've been reading this year is The Greatest Gift by Ann Voskamp. It's a walk through different stories in the Bible that point to the coming of the Messiah. There's a Bible passage and a meditation on that passage. The other book I've been reading this year is the 2018…
I blame it on Homer's Odyssey. You see, a new translation was recently published (November 2017). The first by a female scholar, Emily Wilson. So I absolutely HAD to read it even though I didn't really want to read about all that crazy stuff that Odysseus did and had done to him. But it was…
Last year I picked up the first book the The Lady Janies series by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows: My Lady Jane. I did a short review on it last summer. You can find that here. I couldn't wait until the next book in the series came out this summer--right in time for the…