The Things of Life

One of my favorite times with my family is dinner time. We sit around our table and talk. We share stories from our days, play Wiz Kidz, do ...

It’s a club in which no one wants to be a part. It brings heartache. Sadness. Sometimes it tears marriage apart.  And yet that’s where I am....

When you can't grow your family on your own, it brings about all sorts of feelings.  And they never go away.  They fade in and out.  A l...

Gary was bored during yet another meeting that droned on. And on. So what did he decide to do?  Look up my blog.  And he started reading fro...

This was actually written January 22, 2019. My birthday is coming up.  And I'm missing my grandparents.  I'm missing our Arnold fami...

So, before 2020, I had had no surgeries.  By the end of 2020, I will have had three.  I guess it's just the kind of year 2020 is going t...

When you set out to start raising little people into adults, they talk about the cute little bundle you will bring home from the hospital.  ...

For a while now, probably over a year, I have been waking up between 5:30 and 6:30.  Not everyday, but more days than I'd like.  Enough ...