Tag: Christianity
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He Fights Back
They believe him to be a teenager; he’s not quite heavy enough to force the trap. He is, however, clever enough to get the food that’s inside it. He’s a rat. A teenage rat. Slinky (my name for him) can scrunch his rather large body into such a compact size that he can worm his…
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Didn’t Expect To See That
It was “Drive Your Tractor To Church Day” up in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. We’ve never experienced that in Florida. Here in Orlando, I don’t see that many tractors, period. My son and his family own a winery in the south-central part of the state, where they and those owning much larger farms require tractors to handle…
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It’s A Kid Thing
The prevailing experience for children turning a year of age is to give them a cake to do with as they please. A smash cake. The thought is that a child at this age hasn’t ingested a lot of sugar up to this point, so it’s a reward of sorts to let them eat cake.…
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A Spoonful Of Sugar
I don’t understand the excitement over Ring Pops. Granted, they’re sugary, easy to carry, ring-around-a-finger kind of candy. And for those who love lollipops, they’re a fine alternative. I’ve always seen them as a means to migrate stickiness from the mouth to the fingers to the clothes. I never liked lollipops. Kids, however, love them.…
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Besties Always
We hear a lot about best friends, BFFs, besties–those folks we feel closest to, people we feel safest with, who know our worst and still love us well. Two who know me really well live too far for my liking, and being a horrible phone caller, I miss out on opportunities to stay in touch…
Tip of My Iceberg 