Tagged: Family

Tears of love

My daughter, her husband, and their two children moved in with us while their new house was being built. This physical closeness (there were six of us in a very small house!) gave us (Read More)

Christmas and family

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. I’m posting this on Boxing Day because I’ve been away for the season seeing family and away from my computer. My Christmas was great. We celebrated (Read More)

Healing moment

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Mine was great. My wife, kids, kids-in-law, and grandkids were all there. Our tiny house was crammed full of family and love. My wife and I are (Read More)

Going out with love

I have a person in my life, someone important to me, who is angry with me. I found this out in a terse text message from him saying “never contact me again”. His anger (Read More)

Don’t toss your jewel away

Yesterday a woman tied a weighted bag to her body and jumped in the bay. She had kids and a loving husband. Now before I go any further I should say she apparently was (Read More)

The Waltons

We have something going on in our house that I have forgotten to share with you. We’ve been living like the Waltons. You know, that TV show where John Boy, his siblings, his parents (Read More)

Big Climb 2016

Well, I don’t usually write on the weekends but a new reader/follower, Richard Swift, sent a comment asking if I was still writing since I hadn’t done so for some time. His ‘Kick-in-the-buns’ got (Read More)

A stick for Show & Tell

Sometimes things just present themselves. My grandson, Joshua, needed something for show and tell at his school. He couldn’t think of anything he wanted to show. Truth be told, he really didn’t want to (Read More)

Climbing high

Luke seems to have taken a back seat, making room for leg pain due to a pinched nerve in my back. I think the doctor called it Sciatica. I started a janitorial job but (Read More)