Category Archives: Musings

Our family enjoyed our first fall tradition this weekend – visiting the Tennessee Valley Fair. The fair is, well, the fair. If you haven’t been in a while, it really hasn’t changed since you were a kid. In fact, it brings out the kid in you again. They still have the baby ducks sliding downContinue reading “Through the Eyes of a Child”

I know a girl whose parents have recently passed away. Her only sister is disabled and lives in a nursing home and she has no other living relatives. She speaks sadly of her upcoming birthday because she is afraid that no one will remember. This girl is not living in a foster home; in fact,Continue reading “Widows and Orphans”

My daughter had to get glasses this week – genetics at work, as my husband is just short of being legally blind without his glasses. Being the very self- conscious sort, she wasn’t sure about the whole process. After all, she reasoned, she can see the board at school this year just fine because theContinue reading “To See or Not to See”

Our world has expanded exponentially over the last few weeks with my oldest son in a large public school and the numerous opportunities to get involved and meet new people. How comforting and relaxing it was over the Labor Day weekend to have old friends come and visit for a few days. These dear friendsContinue reading “Make New Friends, but Keep the Old”