by Melinda | Nov 11, 2014 | All Together Now, Free Indeed, Get Real, Legacy, Listen and Learn, Living Low, My Country, Thankfulness
Nope, this is not a post about Tolstoy. But it is Veteran’s Day, and my title is what I imagine every American veteran’s belief about their role in this life to be. They chose to risk everything in war so that we could realize everything in peace....
by Melinda | Nov 10, 2014 | All in the Family, Claim to Fame, In the Eye of the Beholder, Legacy
I’ve been reading a small diary, found at my aunt’s house as we’ve been cleaning it out. Written by my great aunt, whom I had heard of but knew little about, it was her account of a trip she took in 1923 with her sister, my grandmother. Her name was...
by Melinda | Nov 5, 2014 | Free Indeed, Hope, Legacy, My Country, Thankfulness
I love to vote. Regardless of the turnout (although, who doesn’t want it to go their way?), I love the feeling that I get when I walk out of my polling precinct with that little “I Voted” sticker on my shirt. I feel like I’ve done my part, that...
by Melinda | Nov 3, 2014 | He Knows Me, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, It's Not About Me, Legacy
It’s all over the news and social media. Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman with a terminal brain cancer, and a six-months-to-live diagnosis from her doctors, has died on her own terms, and by her own hand, right on the date she scheduled. It’s...
by Melinda | Aug 26, 2014 | All in the Family, Hope, Legacy, Life on the Rock, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
We went to see my 87-year-old Aunt Mary Ellen yesterday. She’s my dad’s last living sibling and only sister, and, suffering from the effects of congestive heart failure and pneumonia, she’s had a very rough go of it the last few weeks. Mary...
by Melinda | Aug 6, 2014 | Claim to Fame, God in the Everyday, It's Not About Me, Legacy, Living Low
I believe it was last year when I first heard it. I was blown completely away. Then I heard it again, today, and I bet I’ve played it 10 times. If you’re also a child of the 70’s, it’ll strike a chord in you, too. But really? It should...
