Living Real

I love it when Jack & I can take out time for a day off — no work, no mowers, no computers… just us. That was today. He had a doctor's visit — almost a year since his knee replacement. The doctor says he's doing great. He can move his leg from 0 degrees extension [...]

Last week I met Belle Wegner, daughter of Rob & Michelle Wegner. She's a sweet little girl who is a walking miracle — or as her dad says, "a Jesus story." Last week she climbed the path to Grotto Falls with her family and I heard she did very well.  Today Jack & I took [...]

This past Monday was our 18th anniversary and Jack decided to take me to Gatlinburg to go around the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Unfortunately the loop was closed because of the season, but we still took some pictures at the Bud Ogle Place and then at the Twin Creeks Picnic Area and at the [...]

I have a new husband.  Jack's always been a man of compassion and love, with that spark of silliness to boot, but he's different now. He accepted God's call to go someplace he wasn't really looking to go to. He went to Haiti.  He saw garbage-laden streets. He smelled the filth and the sewage. He [...]

I've been absent from my blog. My apologies to the millions who read it. (Yeah, right.)  For the past week or so, Jack, my husband, has been preparing to go to Haiti with a group of six other men for a mission adventure. My past days have been filled with making sure he had all [...]

From a website called "Church Marketing Sucks" — lots of topics discussed there that we'd really just as soon ignore, simply because we've always done it that way…. Here's a thought or twelve about Christmas: For the Love of God Rethink Christmas We recently talked about God's bailout plan, and I brought up the point [...]

Wow, can you believe how shallow I am? Last Friday I went to the doctor because I was coming down with yet another head cold. Then Jack and I continued on with our plans to visit Charlotte, Elevation Church, and Operation Christmas Child. Hey, I was taking my antibiotics and vitamins. I was fine. Upon [...]

Tonight we enjoyed the Community thanksgiving service. Townsend is a small town with several churches. Two United Methodist churches, six Baptist churches, one Catholic church, one full gospel fellowship and a non-denominational church. I think that's it. Regardless of what we call them or what name they go by, the churches are part of the [...]

I'm thinking about "doing" Christmas differently this year. Join me?

I read the book House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti when it was first published. I’m absolutely a fan of both authors. I have to say, this book has the qualities of any suspense novel written and I expect the movie, released November 7th, to be one of those suspenseful thrillers that make me [...]