Jan 8, 2026 – Transform
After posting the blog yesterday, I turned on the TV in the kitchen to keep me company while I had a late breakfast. The cooking, decorating, and Hallmark channels didn’t hold my interest so...
Tagged: joy
Dec 27, 2025 – The Road Ahead
There’s one house in the valley below that is glowing with Christmas lights. You can see it through the trees in the bottom right of the photo. It makes me smile whenever I see...
Dec 9, 2025 – Screen(andlife)savers
The screensaver image that greeted me, when I woke my computer up this morning, was a Napa Valley vineyard with rows and rows of grape vines. All of the leggy vertical vines with bushy...
Oct 26, 2025 – My Friend
This will be a quick entry today because, after we go to living room church (which means watch or listen to it online), I’ll be getting ready to leave for a little overnight trip...
Oct 24, 2025 – With and Without
NO SLING! At my follow up appointment yesterday, my doctor told me I could stop wearing the sling, except when I’m in crowds, and I think I’ll consider the grocery store a crowded place...
Oct 20, 2025 – Emotions
As I sat down at the computer with my coffee, I reminded myself that I should start the day with my PT exercises. I could have given myself some reasons why I could put...
Oct 16, 2025 – Therapy
It seems that the sleeping-through-the-night song may have been a one hit wonder. However, four hours of uninterrupted sleep and waking to no pain is still better than waking every 3 hours to an...
August 29, 2025 – Maturity
Utmost – Chambers writes, “Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your common sense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith.” So true! Makes me think back...
August 19, 2025 – Sorrow & Joy
I was pleased yesterday when the ER doctor (who is a fellow under the head doctor that I saw on Fri), who had taken care of my left eye two weeks ago, came into...
August 14, 2025 – Correction
Prevail 226 – The Lord’s Prayer says, “Lead us not into temptation” yet today’s Prevail verse from Matthew 4:1 says, “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there...