May 19, 2024 It’s been one year since we began calling this place home. When we moved in, the mimosa tree was in full bloom with its...

October 24, 2022 Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm & harmony. -Thomas Merton Lately I’ve been feeling...

September 4, 2022 At the end of a scorching, dry summer, finally there was a pattern change. It came just as my dad was slipping away...

July 14, 2022 Some seasons are brutal. This summer qualifies. Due to a long stretch of triple-digit days, I’m doing double shifts with...

June 12, 2022 I’ll take care of me for you, and you take care of you for me. –Jim Rohn One of the greatest gifts we can give our loved...

March 27, 2022 As the air changes outside, it begins to refresh my insides on every level. Last week, an article entitled Spring Cleaning...

I have many happy snow memories from my childhood in South Dakota, so when it snows in Texas, I feel a little giddy. Snow here is usually...

Comparison is the thief of joy. --Theodore Roosevelt It’s perfectly natural to feel a let-down after the holidays. We don’t realize how...

December 17, 2021 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a...

December 9, 2021 Ah, the gift list! What can we give? Where do we find it? What can we make or create? How much will we spend? Time,...