Live and Learn

                I love Lucy.                 Not the old TV show, although it had its moments. (Who doesn’t need a dose of Fred and Ethel Mertz now and then, right?) No, the Lucy who has captured my heart is my newest grandchild, Lucy Marie Crum, who very recently made her grand entrance into this world.                … Continue reading God Misses His Kids, Too

       I guess if you stretched the term “deer hunter” way beyond all common sense, you could say I’m a deer hunter. I don’t hunt with guns or arrows, and you’ll never catch me sitting in a tree or crouching in the bushes with heaven-knows-what scurrying about me, but I do hunt deer with my eyes.… Continue reading The Epic Deer That Wasn’t

Comparing ourselves with others is never a very good idea; when you’re freefalling down the backside of your 50’s like I am, it’s downright nuts. Talk about a quick ticket to Despair City. Thumbing through magazines and comparing those supermodel photos with the sags, wrinkles, and bulges I see in my mirror makes me want… Continue reading I Want Off the Train!

                 It might sink a few T.V. shows like “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” but I think it might be a very good thing if we all recognized and accepted where our natural talents lie, and especially where they do not.                  One gift I definitely don’t have, for example, is… Continue reading My Spots, My Spots Aren’t Gone!

        Prairie View A & M University in Texas lost 80 football games in a row back in the ’90s. The California Institute of Technology men’s basketball team went 0-207 between 1996 and 2007.         How do I know this? I looked it up. I typed “famous losing streaks” into my computer search engine and these schools… Continue reading God’s Win Covers Our Losses

    One of the joys of my new country life, I’ve discovered, is watching the critters that roam around out here.        Some critters, that is. Not snake critters. Thankfully, I’ve only encountered one of those since we moved to the sticks six months ago. It didn’t launch me into cardiac arrest only because I… Continue reading Jittery Critters

        Did you know it is apparently the right of all Americans to have granite countertops in our kitchens?         If this is news to you, you’re just not watching enough home improvement shows. I’ve been watching more television than usual as I recover from surgery. The surgeon found a hot mess in my hip and his… Continue reading God is the Ultimate Remodeler

         What does it really mean to be successful?          I was thinking about that recently as I watched the Wimbledon tennis championships on TV.          Following the action at Wimbledon this year made me strangely reflective, perhaps because I was recovering from yet another orthopedic surgery and feeling 150 years old. I remembered how, as a kid,… Continue reading God’s Trophy Doesn’t Tarnish

Why is it so hard to unpack those last few boxes—the ones full of scarves I never wear, greeting cards I’ve never sent, and Tupperware from the Jimmy Carter era? We moved four months ago, and after finding places for everything I actually use and wear, I lost my unpacking mojo. Realizing that it’s crazy… Continue reading Who Would You Quote?

If I were a Keebler elf, I’d be trembling in my little cookie-making boots right now, wondering if New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg might be coming after me next. After he’s through ridding his kingdom of big, scary soft drinks, that is. You’ve probably heard that the New York mayor has proposed a ban… Continue reading Change Hearts, Not Menus