Tales from a Mid-Lifer

  • Grateful for the Few Remaining Drive-Ins!

    Grateful for the Few Remaining Drive-Ins!

    It’s remained an annual tradition with my family of five. With 22 yr. old twins and a 20 yr. old (along with 10 others we invited this summer), we again drove over an hour to our favorite drive-in for a night of family fun. It’s something that we all look…

  • Cleveland Museum of Art

    A few quick pics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. During one my Spring road trips, we stopped in Cleveland. We could only stay an hour but the many interesting sections made me want to return again sometime for a lengthier stay to explore it a bit more. The museum…

  • Summer Gifts

    My gratitude today….I’m so thankful that God gives us summer joys after really, really long winters. Fresh, local market produce…straight from the farm, no preservatives. No sitting on a truck. No ripening in a greenhouse…summer gifts. Summer rain…Sweet watermelon…“…give thanks to the Lord for He is good…”

  • 🇺🇸Independence🇺🇸

    “…one nation under God…”

  • Wordless Wednesday – Little Lake

  • Monday Gratitude: William Arthur Ward

  • Wordless Wednesday-The Sign of His Covenant

  • Monday Gratitude: C.S. Lewis

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  • Silent Sunday-Mother Teresa

    “We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able…

  • Joining the Rat-Race Mid-Life

    Joining the Rat-Race Mid-Life

    Over 20 years ago, I sat on the tarmac in Iowa waiting to take off and return home from a business trip. I was in my first big-girl job post-college, and after receiving a promotion, was promptly sent to various cities to work with administrators in the Midwest and Northeast.…

  • Happy Daisies🌼

    When picking up flowers to have on various tables at my twins graduation party, I decided to get a variety of a few different blooms. Their party was three weeks ago and I JUST had to retire these happy, pretty daisies this morning! They were the least expensive yet brought…

  • Gratitude…Billy Graham

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