The Coffee Is Hot, the Welcome Is Warm

The Coffee Is Hot, the Welcome Is Warm

Outside my window, fog hides the world behind an eerie curtain. But, come on in and let’s have an early morning chat. The coffee is hot, the welcome is warm at my house. A car hums up the hill, its headlights tunneling through a colorless world. How welcoming lights appear in the darkness! Have you ever gone through […]

My Gifts to You at Christmas

My Gifts to You at Christmas

“Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee,” (Acts 3:6). So saying, Peter and John, specially blessed by God, gave a lame man the gift of walking. I have no miraculous abilities, but I do have a heart of gratitude: of thankfulness to God for the gift of His […]

Confessions Over Coffee with Blanche

Confessions Over Coffee with Blanche

https://www.amazon.com/Blanche-Day-Manos/e/B0090018EI/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 They used to be on shelves in groceries stores: True Story, True Romance, etc., etc. I don’t see them there any more. Are confession magazines (we called them Confessions) now a thing of the past, folded for lack of readership? When I was a pre-teen and a young teenager, those magazines were taboo. My mother would […]

Who Are You, Really?

Who Are You, Really?

Does writing tend to call out the real person hiding inside some of us? Are you a closet writer? Who are you, really? The birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson was just a few days ago. His family wanted him to be a lighthouse keeper. He had other ideas and pursued those dreams. I’m very glad […]

Upside-Down Sort of Day

Upside-Down Sort of Day

This day is starting upside-down, temperature-wise. But, that’s all right. Yesterday, the wind blew like a storm all day. Warm temperatures, cloudless sky with gales. I’m glad I took a picture of my beautiful golden maple because this morning a lot of those leaves are on the ground and the wind is still gusting. The temperature is […]

Earthquake!

Earthquake!

Another earthquake struck my home state of Oklahoma last night at 7:44. It was first thought to be a 5.3 but has been down-graded to a 5.0. My brother phoned a few minutes after it struck, asking if I felt it. I didn’t. He and my sister-in-law not only felt, they heard it and it shook […]