All Things Blog

Sept 15, 2025 – Keep Singing

Sept 15, 2025 – Keep Singing

I’m always so glad to get to my heating pad here in the sunroom. I wake up with a sore back most every morning and now my shoulder and neck are added to the...

Sept 14,2025 – Monitor Your Thoughts

Sept 14,2025 – Monitor Your Thoughts

Yesterday morning I started painting the backyard iron fence. I was just going to sand and cover the rust spots for now, but the new shiny black paint looked so much better than the...

Sept 13, 2025 – Wake Up

Sept 13, 2025 – Wake Up

When I found myself awake just before 5am (on a Saturday morning), I began thinking through why I was awake, but I had no idea at first. It certainly wasn’t because I felt well-rested...

Sept 12, 2025 – Leaning

Sept 12, 2025 – Leaning

Yesterday I encouraged my children to try to watch some of the 9/11 ceremonies and documentaries, telling them that I watch every year to mourn with the families of the victims and to be...

Sept 11, 2025 – Edits

Sept 11, 2025 – Edits

One of the reasons I hesitated to dive into the world of blogging is because of editing. I didn’t want to be tied each day to the words I’d posted. I wanted the liberty...

Sept 9 & 10, 2025 – To Do

Sept 9 & 10, 2025 – To Do

When I opened my “To Do” notes page in my phone to add to my list for today, I started reading through all of my notes from the past year when I was caring...

Sept 8, 2025 – Connections

Sept 8, 2025 – Connections

I’M BAAAACK! And, by that, I mean that my long-winded writing is back! Ha ha I started writing this blog in the Orlando airport Sunday morning but saw that my battery wasn’t going to...

September 4 & 5, 2025 – Watch

September 4 & 5, 2025 – Watch

I’m posting several blogs today (2nd through 5th) because my days have gotten away from me while I’ve been here in DC. I’ve started to write each day, but then something comes up; or,...

September 3, 2025 – Pour It Out

September 3, 2025 – Pour It Out

It’s a little challenging to keep myself from reorganizing cabinets and making suggestions for things around my children’s homes. I’m an organizer at heart and it really helps me with my own stuff to...

Sept 2, 2025 – Who and What

Sept 2, 2025 – Who and What

I made copies of the devotions from Power Thoughts to bring pages rather than a book with me and today is the last day of those. I was planning to copy pages from each...