by Melinda | Jul 16, 2013 | My Man, Reaching Out, Relationship
Over the last few years, we’ve had a difficult relationship within my husband’s business. Certainly, his business is full of challenges, which he always meets, head-on, and takes them all in stride. After all, it’s all in a day’s work....
by Melinda | Jul 15, 2013 | Living Low, Living the God Life, Reaching Out, Thankfulness
Getting ready to fly home from our extraordinary weekend in Des Moines, I grabbed my phone to make myself a quick reminder note before I turned it off. When I opened the app, I saw something in my list of notes that I didn’t recognize. Typically, I put...
by Melinda | Jul 11, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Living Low, Reaching Out, Travel
I was talking to a friend, a couple of days ago, about our upcoming trip to Europe. His ancestry is Italian, and he’s spent a good deal of time in Venice, particularly. Since that’s one of the stops on our itinerary, he was giving me some tips....
by Melinda | Jul 4, 2013 | My Country, Reaching Out, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
I just saw a video of a friend’s preschooler saying the Pledge of Allegiance. She sat, wearing a big blue hair bow with her tiny little hand over her heart, and stated the words that so many Americans have memorized to the point of reciting them by rote,...
by Melinda | Jun 29, 2013 | About Me, Blogging, Living Low, Reaching Out, Thankfulness
If you check in here regularly, specifically from a Facebook link on your computer (mobile devices seem unaffected), you know I’ve had a bit of trouble this week. I’ve been posting the link to my daily post just like I do every other day, but...
by Melinda | Jun 12, 2013 | All in the Family, God in the Everyday, Living Low, Reaching Out, Thankfulness
There are those people in life who sort of glide through their days and their relationships and their jobs with an ease and elegance that you don’t see all the time. They speak with respect, always putting the other person first. Their words are uplifting...