Last week we loaded up the old RV, and I do mean, “loaded” and took off for a few days of fun and sun at Emerald Isle, North Carolina. When we left on Tuesday it was hot and sunny. I couldn’t wrap my mind around the weather forecast for the next day saying there would be wind gusts up to thirty-five miles per hour with heavy rain.

Upon arrival we found our campsite on the first row right in front of the ocean. I was sort of sad that a big sand dune hid our view of the…

During the Memorial Day Weekend I started wondering about all the men and women who had lost their lives in the eleven wars Americans have fought in. Each person who lost his, or her life was a unique individual. A person God created with a face, personality and soul like none other. Each fallen soldier was someone’s son, brother, dad, sister, wife or mother. They should not be a forgotten memory. They were real flesh and blood with the same wants and needs of you and me. The only…

Summer has officially begun at my house. No, it isn’t June 20^th. But, it is the day my granddaughter, Emma gets out of school for the summer. I cannot believe another school year is over. And, in only eleven weeks it will all start over again. 

When I was a youngster summer vacation began sometime in mid May and lasted until after Labor Day. Now kids are going back to school as early as August 9^th. In my day that would never have worked. The bottom…

It’s raining, it’s pouring the old man is snoring. Yes, really. I woke this morning to my husband Jerry snoring, and the rain pitter-pattering on my window. What a glorious day to be alive.

I love rain. For me it is God’s way of telling me to slow down, to sit back and listen. Have you ever heard the rain talking to you? Of course you have. All kinds of things run through my head as the rain bounces off the tin roof of my camper. Or, when it blows sideways and tings off the…