My mother says age is just a number. The older I get, the more I agree with her. When I was a young girl, I looked forward to becoming 13, then 16, then 21. After that, the wishing game ended. As a teen, there were times I wasn’t taken seriously. “You’re too young,” I was…
Category: Personal
Life and Death
I have always been a deep thinker, possibly too serious at times. One of my earliest memories is attending a funeral with my Granny. I am unsure of my age but I was quite young. I have no idea who had died. My Granny and I discussed my “funeral memory” years afterward, trying to figure…
Going Gray
“Gray hair is a crown of glory…“ Proverbs 16:31 (NLT) I struggled with this verse for many years. My thoughts about gray hair were, “Gray hair makes me feel old and I am hiding it the best I can.” But things have changed and so have I. I found my first white hair when I…
Ironing
I wonder if ironing is becoming a thing of the past. I’ve heard many people say they do not iron. Me? I continue to iron. I don’t iron as much as I used to, but I cannot fathom wearing certain articles of clothing without ironing them. A friend who has been married over twenty years…
You Never Know Where It’s Been
Solomon, my Golden Retriever, was chewing. Not a good sign. He should only be chewing twice daily while standing in front of his food bowl or when receiving a treat for an act of obedience, a trick, or a bribe. It was none of these occasions so it was time for investigating. I don’t know…
I Can’t Believe I Said That
Most of my embarrassing moments have come from saying something without thinking. Worse yet, sometimes I actually did think before speaking the words I lived to regret. One such moment occurred when I was a teen. I grew up in a small town and worked in a drugstore. One Christmas season I was wrapping a…
My Story
My grandmother took me to a funeral when I was very young. This was my first introduction to death, and I could not get away from the haunting question in my mind, “Why do we live, only to die?” A depression settled over me that I couldn’t shake. When I was approximately six years old…