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Determination, Ducks and Doubt
About determination….. “Stop fighting the current of your life and struggling to be somewhere else. You are exactly where you need to be. This is your (writing) life. There is no other like it.” Sage...
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When We Can’t Tell Them…..But Surely They Know
So much I can’t tell you…..but surely you know. Blue moon rises on this summer night and as I watch, I’m caught in memories of full-moon romps, of little boys rolling in grass lit bright as day,...
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When Maybe It’s Okay To Say “You’ve Got a Friend”
Between doing loads of laundry…..checking off that college packing list….swiping at those unbidden tears…. I popped the CD on the top of my music stack into the CD player and was taken back 40 years to...
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What Are You Waiting For?
Winter will soon be pressing in on us here in this Indiana valley and today seemed like the perfect day to make plans for spring. An afternoon stop at my local home improvement store turned up packages...
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Five Minutes of “Ordinary”
Blogging today at Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday. Those were such “ordinary” days — those weeks, months and years when our four boys sat under their Mom’s tutelage. Trying at times, rewarding most...
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Just Five Minutes of Laundry?
This is the day when we write for five minutes non-stop, no editing for Lisa-Jo Baker’s “Five Minute Fridays”. So, here it goes: I finally did it. On the Thursday before he was to come home from...
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What To Do With An Empty Nest?
The lyrics from a popular song a few decades back keep running through my head: “Where have you gone my little boy, little boy? Where have you gone my sonny, my own? Turn around you’re two, turn around...
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In Celebration of Honorable Men
The Reverend Billy Graham Today, the world celebrates the 95th birthday of the Reverend Billy Graham. He will be honored at a party attended by an estimated 800 guests in his home town of Asheville,...
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Remembering “One Man’s Work”: Part 2
Dad’s book. You can read the first chapters by clicking here. In mid-December, my Dad. Robert Harris Wilson, will celebrate his 85th birthday. A couple of years ago, I began writing down dad’s stories...
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A Happy Anniversary and Thanksgiving, and “One Man’s Work”
Mom and Dad celebrated their anniversary with a Thanksgiving dinner at our house. As we sat down to Thanksgiving dinner at Springfield Farm on Thursday, I was filled with gratitude for my family. Ours...
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Serving His Country: “One Man’s Work” Part 5
As a little girl, I loved looking at Dad’s military scrapbook — I still do today. The book is all black, with descriptions, notes and sketches of airplanes and soldiers created in white ink. The black...
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Scouting, Mail Delivery and Family: “One Man’s Work” Park 6
85 years ago this week, Ruby and Lorne Wilson anxiously awaited the birth of their second child, a son. Robert Harris Wilson would grow up to be a boy scout, a soldier, a postman…..and my Dad. This...
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I’ll Take This Christmas Miracle
In this season of Miracles, would God do less than deliver when asked? Even on a day when life is spinning wild with errands, with that mad rush toward a day for Celebration. Even when it’s only a...
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Created to be a ‘Living Stone’
I grew up in a little stone house at the edge of a small Midwestern town. Years before we moved there, a previous owner had covered his simple wood frame house with big rocks of all shapes and sizes....
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6 Words of Motherly Wisdom for a Teenage Pop Star
Teenage Pop Star When the 19-year-old Pop Star gets stopped for speeding and driving while intoxicated, I can’t help but react in the Mom Mode. I’m qualified to do that. As Mom to four male...
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When Blessing Others Means Doing The Dirty Work
My first coherent thoughts as I awoke this morning were prayers that the Lord would bless my youngest son, a college student, on his 19th birthday. And that God would show me how to bless my husband....
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Remembering Uncle Bill and His Legacy of Love
There were those crazy red neon lips atop the billboard on Lakeshore Drive. And the alley by the brick high school where we played games on summer nights. That walk to the little park with the swimming...
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Am I a Writer?
Join me today with others writing here at Lisa-Jo Baker’s blog “Five Minute Friday”. Our prompt for today is “Writer.” Planning my wardrobe for next week’s Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand...
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A Walk Among the Dead on Resurrection Sunday
It was not what I expected to do on an Easter Sunday evening. We had worshiped, feasted and rested. Our hearts and bellies were full with celebration of Christ’s resurrection. Who knew as the sun was...
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Saints Among Us: Of Grandmothers, Nuns and Pea Soup
Joining us here for today’s reflection is my friend, Shanda Blue Easterday. Shanda is a professor of composition and British literature and is a poet. Her latest work, “The Beekeeper’s Wife”, is...
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