by Melinda | Oct 28, 2013 | About Me, Bible Study, Living the God Life
I went to the grocery store yesterday, and as I was putting everything away, I noticed that our pantry door’s hinges were squeaking. Every time I opened the door to put something else in, it made this horrible, long screech. I couldn’t find the...
by Melinda | Oct 23, 2013 | Home on the Range, Living the God Life, Marriage, Thankfulness, Travel
It’s early here in Rome. You may not even have gone to bed yet, if you’re reading state-side, but here the sun is just beginning to rise on our travel day. Traveling away from this magical place, and home to reality. We spent our last day returning...
by Melinda | Oct 21, 2013 | God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, In the Eye of the Beholder, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Travel
So, I can now say that I’ve gone to a doctor in another country and survived. But it was an experience. Google told me that there was a tourist 24-hour walk-in clinic at the Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital in Rome. I was encouraged by the fact that it...
by Melinda | Oct 19, 2013 | Living the God Life, Reaching Out, Thankfulness
In my lifelong romantic notions of Italy, no other region has made my heart sing like Tuscany. Enter movies like “Under the Tuscan Sun,” and I was ruined for it beyond repair. So, yesterday – the day we had set aside for a trip to the region...
by Melinda | Oct 8, 2013 | All Together Now, Living Low, Living the God Life, Reaching Out
I used to wonder why some people referred to gossip as “dish.” Now I think it’s probably because gossip is the act of serving up what so many find delicious: the inside scoop on someone else. What they said. What they did. How they look. Their...
by Melinda | Oct 3, 2013 | Home on the Range, Living Low, Living the God Life, Random Musings, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
(If you are an arachniphob, I apologize in advance. But read anyway!) It started with my husband’s fascination with the garden spider. There was one in the front flower bed that he made sure no one bothered because “they are GOOD spiders.” So,...