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 4, 2014 | Motherhood, My Girls, Thankfulness
You know, sometimes you don’t realize what your words mean to a person. My youngest daughter is 25 today. She has received a gift from us, has had messages from the whole family, and I’ve talked to her on the phone twice. But when I asked her if...
by Melinda | Jul 30, 2014 | My Man, Thankfulness
We were so young, weren’t we, when this all started? Barely 18 and 19, when I accepted that first date at Dalt’s, surrounded by all our high school friends that first Thanksgiving of our college careers. We were friends for a couple of years before that,...
by Melinda | Jul 25, 2014 | God in the Everyday, He Knows Me, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Life Abundant, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Work
I’m sitting in Kevin’s new office, just down the hall from his former corner office suite that waits for its new occupant. It contains some of the furniture that he used for the last four years, along with a different desk, since Kevin’s is...
by Melinda | Jul 17, 2014 | Marriage, My Man, Thankfulness, Work
We sat there all day, my man and I, in our den-turned-office, across from one another at our new partner’s desk. He was doing phoning and planning; I was setting up social media, and working through correspondence. We alternated between constructive...
by Melinda | Jun 23, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, In the Eye of the Beholder, Listen and Learn, Temptation, Thankfulness
We’ve had some delicious rain the last couple of days. Actually, this has been a delightfully wet spring, music to the ears of draught-weary Texans, and we have been soaking it all in, at least as much as the grass. With the rain, however, has come...
