Living Real

This Christmas is so strange for us this year. We’re not gathering with loved ones at home this year on Christmas Day.  We’re not gathering with loved ones at their homes this year. Instead, my husband, Jack, and I will be boarding an airplane around lunch time to fly to Orlando, Florida. I grew up [...]

What an amazing weekend! Jack and I, along with friend Michelle Knoll, flew to Orlando to visit with Rich and Connie Willis, of incredible fame on this very blog. Just last week I shared that we were making the trip and some of the things I expected. So now, if you'll bear with me, I'll [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today I am in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's been a different kind of day. Slept late, rested, enjoyed lunch with Jack, then we ran around town, exploring a little. I'm trying to be more cognizant of being kind and showing love even in the least expected ways. I love smiling at people. It gets responses. [...]