by Sue | May 1, 2022 | Care Giving
Several years ago, I wrote this article, which was published in Hope for Women Magazine, about how devastating it is for someone to lose control over their lives. It is as true today as it was then. I learned then that you cannot, and should not try, to parent your...
by Sue | Apr 25, 2022 | Body & Soul
OR? I am of a certain age where I can tell you that never have I seen so many long- held beliefs challenged on every level. I grew up on meat, potatoes, and vegetable dinners, eggs for breakfast and cold cut sandwiches for lunch. My mother’s...
by Sue | Apr 19, 2022 | Faith
Recently, I spoke with Maria Wehrle, founder and director of Mothers in Need of Others (MINO). In 2004 she took a “spiritual gifts” class at church, hoping to learn what she might do next with her life. It was the last day of class, and Maria, a mother of six, had not...
by Sue | Apr 11, 2022 | Books & Writers
What do you imagine when you hear the word “writer?” An artist with her head in the clouds? A man cackling away while he writes about the Cracken taking down a Martian fleet of aliens? Or just a person who likes to share information, stories, ideas, or...
by Sue | Apr 3, 2022 | Care Giving
I want to introduce my guest blogger, Annabelle Harris. Annabelle Harris is a 67-year-old writer, wife, mother, and grandmother. She started blogging nearly a decade ago when she was still facing the prospect of retirement and old age. She was terrified and needed...
by Sue | Mar 28, 2022 | Body & Soul
OR? So what’s the scoop on Vitamin E? I want to share some eye-opening information I discovered about this vitamin from my Food Revolution Network feed. It’s one of the fat soluble vitamins (vitamins A,D, E, and K), which means the body...
by Sue | Mar 21, 2022 | Faith
Years ago, I came upon a quirky piece of art. At first glance, it looked like a picture made up of thousands of shards of colored pieces. Colorful, but where was the artistry? (Clearly, I’m not a fan of modern art. I like an apple to look like an apple.) The more I...
by Sue | Mar 6, 2022 | Care Giving
When I was growing up as an only child, I envied my friends with siblings. “You have built-in playmates,” I would say. Quite a few of them looked at me as if I were crazy. Later, as a caregiver for both my parents, I again envied that sibling relationship. How nice it...
by Sue | Feb 28, 2022 | Body & Soul
Here we go again. Are y’all as sick of this masking debate as I am? My NPR feed has a good article about masking that links to CDC’s latest, and probably the most realistic advice yet....
by Sue | Feb 20, 2022 | Faith
For all I know, by the time you read this post, we may have witnessed the first salvo of a European war. European war. Those words belong to my parents’ generation, not mine. We baby boomers lived through the Cold War and the Viet Nam war, and the wars in the...
