To me, it's so fitting that the Kansas City Chiefs are playing in the Super Bowl today on my dad's 80th birthday. He told me yesterday...

This morning I'm feeling my fingers, and brain, need to warm up before digging into the book, so I decided a blog was in order....

This photo shows the full extent of my worldly possessions other than a carload of clothes and supplies I'm taking to Table Rock Lake...

About a year ago, my daughter and I started having what she coined "champagne dates." Basically, we schedule an afternoon that we are...

When I was thinking about what visual to use, this photo immediately came to mind. While my daughter loved the pool, this was her first...

I attended a very moving Celebration of Life service this week. It's hard to tell exactly how many people were in attendance, but I would...

And it isn't pretty. It's hard. It's sad. It just plain hurts sometimes. And yet, I am so grateful for healing because with it comes the...

Sunday afternoon I enjoyed hiking a trail nearby with the goal of finding the lookout point I'd been told about with a view of Lake...

After I went to church this morning, I was driving around listening to the end of the Chiefs game and decided to drive into East Jordan...

Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the P!nk concert in Kansas City. When my daughter mentioned wanting to see her more than six...

On October 11, 2021, a family I know and love lost their 21-year-old daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece and cousin. Others lost their...

I spent Thursday driving from Kansas City, Missouri to East Jordan, Michigan. I left at 10:30 a.m. CST, stopped briefly three times...

In late April after unexpectedly losing my job, I decided to put my house on the market so I would be ready to move out of the area if...

A few years ago, I heard a very touching song, Some People Do by Old Dominion, and eventually saw the music video. This song really...

Independence Day reminds me of the bravery of soldiers, but I don't equate that with fearlessness. To me, fearlessness is not allowing...

I recently took a walk early one morning when there was a gentle, cool breeze, and the sun was shining brightly in a perfectly clear,...

This is a photo of one of the Facebook Memories that appeared this week. I couldn’t mean these words more if I wrote them today. In the...

From the time I started writing about my journey, first on Facebook then through these blogs, I have been struck by the comments about...

On my flight to Phoenix early Monday morning, the new PINK song, Turbulence, was playing as we began our descent and started...

Recently, I saw the following video and was very moved by this man's story. When I thought of what to title this blog, the phrase heal...