Can One Possibly Grow Young?

Stay young?  Ridiculous. How about grow young?  You can you know. Crazy as it might seem. Many  children taught me how over my years of teaching. You see, it is all too common when you give a test for each wrong answer to be circled often in glaring red and the number...

Shining Moments

Snow. Just the sound of it sends excitement through me. Yes, from the time I was a little girl  growing up in the Catskills of New York I’ve had a love affair with snow. We’d walk back and forth to school No matter how deep the snow. Stumping it with our boot covered...
Shining Moments

Shining Moments

Crash! The sound of shattering glass filled the air. I turned my head to see what had happened. There on the floor lay a million pieces of broken glass and there stood my youngest daughter looking at me with horror in her eyes. Who has not been there either as the one...

Shining Moments

Cut it out!    Scoop it clean!       Carve it just right          so that the light can shine through. Reminds me of life. Cut it out    things that needed to go      difficult moments in which the Lord took out          salty tear moments that I will never forget....

Shining Moments

I talked to the trees    while I walked outside and shuffled in the autumn leaves. I pondered the lessons they have to tell    and what I can learn from them. So while some are pondering weighty subjects my thoughts are up higher so to speak. Trees so green in the...