No trip to Italy is complete without visiting Pisa. My father knew this, and he made sure our route from Belgium to Rome passed through this famous city. The icon of Pisa, the Leaning Tower, was visible from the road, and the fact that it was leaning to one side...
In the fall of 2018, my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. We had both just retired, and we were looking forward to many years of happiness together. We wanted to make up for all the busyness of our careers. We wanted to travel, to write, to share home and...
"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV) "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans...
"Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits." (Mark 6:7 NIV)Recently I had to take my year old collie, Kayley, to Whitehorse for her rabies and booster vaccines. Kayley gets very anxious travelling in the truck and...
Have you noticed how help is often available just when you need it? A few years ago, a California artist carved a unique Christmas gift for his parents in Connecticut. It was a four-foot-tall statue of a hitchhiker, with thumb extended. (The perfect gift for the...
I love old film comedy classics. In particular Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Red Skelton and others like them.I happened to catch one of my favorite movies featuring Laurel and Hardy, titled "Way out West." It makes me laugh every time I see it.I realized...
"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest."What better person to pen these words than Corrie ten Boom since she was a survivor of World War II Nazi death camps. Her family...