Living Real

I’ve been in a desert. Not a physical one, though hot flashes can make it seem so. I’ve felt dry, barren, wasted. I want to write. I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to. I just don’t know the words. Every single day something comes up and I think, “I need to share that!” Then I sit [...]

I had a strange dream last night. I mean, really strange. I was working for a judge (or an attorney) in a courtroom, assisting with making exhibits visible for the jurors. At some point in the day, the judge announced that he would soon be leaving his current position to take a position in a [...]

In 1990, I thought my life was done. Over. Finished. My plan was to return from Tennessee to Florida and live with my parents while working on an education that would support my son and me. My parents and I made the plans to move my son and me during his Christmas vacation at school. [...]

It’s March and I’m only just now getting my word. Well, actually, I’ve had it since January, but didn’t have the words to share with you. That makes sense, right? My One Word? HEALTHY. Over the past several years, I’ve focused on getting healthy. Spiritually. Emotionally. Mentally. (No comments!) I have focused on losing weight. [...]

I was born less than a month after my mother watched winds from Hurricane Donna twist a huge limb from a tree in our front yard. I lived in Florida through several hurricanes, including Cleo and Dora in 1964, Betsy in 1965, and Gladys in 1968. In 1979, when I was about seven months pregnant, I [...]

In 2011, I started a new tradition, joining hundreds of others — instead of a New Years’ resolution, or a dozen, none of which I remember after a day or two, I’ve focused on One Word. Last January, I shared my One Word. It was “know” — to know God and myself more. Since I [...]

First day of November, some want to declare this a 30-Days of gratitude thing. We can odo that. Today, on the first day, I am grateful for the husband and family God has given me. It’s been 21 years since I met this man God had picked out for me. We added his two sons, [...]

First day of November, some want to declare this a 30-Days of gratitude thing. We can odo that. Today, on the first day, I am grateful for the husband and family God has given me. It’s been 21 years since I met this man God had picked out for me. We added his two sons, [...]

First day of November, some want to declare this a 30-Days of gratitude thing. We can do that. Today, on the first day, I am grateful for the husband and family God has given me. It’s been 21 years since I met this man God had picked out for me. We added his two sons, [...]

The fog has obliterated the view of the mountain, much like problems can obliterate my view of God.   The thing is, though…       The truth is, the mountain is still there and God never leaves. Go with what you know, not what you see. For we live by believing and not by [...]

I can’t conceive when it’s ever a good thing or a right thing for anyone to advise someone to sin, yet I believe that’s exactly what Pat Robertson has done. Pat Robertson is the chairman of CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network. He has been a face of conservative Christianity for a good number of years. [...]

My parents recently bought a house. The mortgage paperwork showed “mortgage insurance” that I assumed meant the mortgage life insurance that would cover paying the loan if one of them passed away. Dad’s 88, Mom’s 81. That’s a very real possibility. I was wrong. About the “life” part of that insurance. I learned this morning [...]