Year after year, people list resolutions for the new year. Often they include losing weight, getting back to the gym, stopping smoking, getting out of debt, etc. Yet, the majority of individuals fail to achieve their goals. A study in 2015 found that only 64% last longer than one month and a mere 46% remain…
This week, I had the great privilege of baptizing my oldest granddaughter. At nine years of age, we had talked about what it meant to be a Christ-follower off and on for the past 2-3 years. So many people had invested in her understanding of God’s grace and mercy demonstrated by Jesus’ death on the…
Let’s start with a PSA: clean your belly button! As a nurse in the OR, one of my tasks is washing and prepping skin prior to the surgeon’s incision. If the surgical site includes the abdomen, the belly button must be addressed. Recently, I encountered one that hadn’t been cleaned for quite a while…but more…
It’s subtle—until it isn’t. All the hard work slipping away so gradually that it went unnoticed…until it wasn’t. Reality finally sets in when the delusion no longer works and the excuses no longer apply. For me, it was when cheating on my diet finally caught up. I had surgery last fall. To ease the nausea…
A fully stocked kitchen is one benefit of renting a house rather than utilizing a hotel room. It’s even more important when the reason for getting away was our writer’s retreat. Eating out is not an option when you need to spend as much time as possible working on your project. My night to cook…
The squeaking was annoying. Every time we turned on the water, the pipes whistled. Not loudly, but enough that it was maddening. Added to the chaos that exists in a small house with two boisterous boys, any added sounds can be too much. The whistling pipes had to go. My brother-in-law works in maintenance at…
