When you forgive, you in no way change the past — but you sure do change the future.~Bernard Meltzer It was early fall and the kids and I were looking for a new house, closer to the city where we drove almost an hour every day for school, church, shopping… everything. We had found the perfect house in the perfect location at the perfect price. And then I got the phone call. It was my husband,...

Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others.~Martin Luther King, Jr. To say that I was shy when I was ten is an understatement — I was basically afraid of people. Kids, adults, pretty much everyone made me nervous. I was also what most teachers and parents would call a “good kid.” I followed the rules, got good grades in school and rare...

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.~Ralph Waldo Emerson “I’m not saying you are going to die within the year, but I am saying you may not live to see your children grow up.” I am in a chair listening. I am thinking about my four young children. My surgeon is talking. We are discussing my prognosis and my pending surgery. My fortieth year is spinning into a mid-life crisis where eve...

Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.~Author Unknown Marianne was my best friend and she was dying. I had been blessed to be her caregiver. Cleaning up vomit, talking about death, and going to chemo or radiation, or to this test or that appointment every single day for three years had been a joy and never a burden. Marianne and I had prayed, laughed, and cried together ...

Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.~Michael Nelson According to my dictionary, a “muse” is any of the nine Greek goddesses who preside over the arts. This means that, as a writer, I not only get to work in my pajamas, I can also claim my own goddess who will answer my pra...