Tag: King David
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Climb Any Mountain
photo courtesy of Joshua Earle on Unsplash We have a Colorado daughter who was inadvertently born in Fort Collins when I didn’t make it back home to Wisconsin in time for her birth. Unexpected yet wonderful. Courtney had fallen in love with Colorful Colorado at an early age. When she was quite young, she…
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The Gratitude Challenge
Kolly’s words are flowing more frequently and clearly. At nineteen months, she has a mind of her own and words to express what that mind is thinking. She loves people, and her grins and giggles typically bring a like response from those older than her in the room. Kolly learned to say “please” fairly quickly.…
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Selfies Of The Soul
“Whose arms are the longest?” The question was legitimate; we wanted to take a picture of our small group where we’d all be in it. Our friend, David, not only had the longest arms but the moxie to be the one to take the picture. We crowded around him, bobbing here and there to get…
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What Do You Really Want?
All he ever wanted was a bathtub. Beck, my Colorado grand, has, with his family, lived in a very little house his entire brief life. Small enough only to have a three-quarter bath. Translated–no bathtub. His passion is playing in the tub, so his creative parents would find containers to fill with water as alternatives.…
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When Words Are Weapons
It wasn’t my finest hour. One of my daughters had come into town for a day, an opportunity that’s always a delight because she lives quite a distance away. It was work-related, so we weren’t going to see much of her. We needed to make the most of our time with her. I didn’t. I…
Tip of My Iceberg 