Mews from Meowmix

There is an e-mail that circulates from time to time that suggests we should listen to the urgings of our heart.  You know, those thoughts that pop into our minds that it’s time we called Mom/Dad/Sister/Brother/Friend or that we should take time to check on our next-door neighbor who wasn’t feeling well last week.  Or [...]

There’s a time that comes for many of us in life, unless we lose our parents early or unless we, ourselves, pass from this life while still younger and healthy.  It is that time of dealing with role reversal and caring for aging, ill parents and the loss of their independence………….or our own aging, illness, and [...]

Well, since H’s team won their last basketball game on Friday night (which we did not see), they went into the tournament (!) tonight, so we had another chance to watch her play.  Once again, the opposing team was way bigger, looked older, and obviously was meaner! 
But first, before we could watch her [...]

Three fellow bloggers had posts today that really touched my heart.
One, who has become a dear brother through this blog, talked about earning trust.  To read of his and his family’s heart-felt wishes to truly treat others as they would want to be treated (in this case, in the business world) is very inspiring and [...]

This being Friday night, I wasn’t going to blog, since I already did one for Friday.  However, something momentous occurred, so I had to tell you about it.
Due to a sore throat in the house (again), we did not get out tonight for H’s final basketball game, since it’s pretty chilly out.  She called a little [...]

I typically read a devotional each day from Power for Today.  Today’s  reading struck me as especially simple and poignant, and I wanted to share it with you, along with some thoughts of my own.  Here it is pretty much verbatim from the magazine.
“The Wisdom of Innocence (Mark 10:13-16)
Bible Thought:  I praise you, Father…because you [...]

My sister Betty has been in the hospital for more than a week now with all kinds of yucky things going on with her.  She is 15 years older than me and, in a lot of ways, has been like a secondary mother to me all through my life.  We visited with her today, and [...]

Today has been pretty uneventful but, for no particular reason (as Forrest Gump would say), and in spite of a lot of things, I have felt sad.  I think it’s an unwritten rule (or maybe it’s written someplace!) that you don’t get by with doing a lot of whining in blogland!  Nothing has happened, in particular, [...]

One of “my kids” (J) and his wife (H) have a friend (B) presently serving in Afghanistan.  B and the “men/women” he supervises are in charge of guarding prisoners.  These soldiers of the military that we refer to as men and women are often barely out of their teens.  In communication with B, J and [...]

Toward the middle of last week, I realized the upcoming weekend was going to be a doozy!
I already knew we had our favorite 8 year-old’s basketball game at 6pm Friday night.  On Saturday, we had planned for our quarterly luncheon with a couple of my friends and former co-workers.  There was also a Valentine Banquet at [...]