It’s the end of July, and the tomatoes are coming in full force. We bought eight plants this year: Roma, Big Boy, and Cherry. But there were some tomatoes left on the soil from last year, so we currently have twenty tomato plants growing. Our garden looks like one big hedge. They overtook the entireContinue reading “The Tomatoes”

What you do, matters. Doing something, and especially the right thing, is vital. The simple act of taking out the trash makes a difference in a home’s atmosphere. It’s the difference between setting a course to cleanliness or having heaping piles of garbage everywhere. So what you do, matters. But also, what you don’t doContinue reading “The Doers”

When your children hurt, you hurt. In fact, when they hurt, you hurt a little more. Such an occurrence happened recently. Son #1 came over to where I sat in the recliner. He crawled up in my lap and covered up with the throw blanket we keep on the chair. He looked up at me,Continue reading “The Kingdom of Heaven”

*From my Facebook post yesterday * Sundays are when almost no one reads these posts. So now is a good time to post this. I wrote this two years ago. The fewer people who read it, the better. I wrote it as a poem about a controversial subject in our country a few years ago.Continue reading “The Redo”