Heat Wave in Sheets
I suppose if you’re in your twenties or thirties or even your forties, you might think one way about heat waves in sheets. But if you’re well into your fifties and female, there is an alternative way of thinking. Yes indeed! ‘Tis the season of life for frequent private summers blowing in from God-knows-where in […]
Faith for the Frozen
There’s only so much a poor soul can take! In all my years of Wisconsin living, 18 to be exact, I have never experienced this kind of cold. Human beings and barn cats and horses and naughty lab dogs are not meant for such harshness. Well, maybe the kids? Just kidding. So this morning, I’m […]
Horror Moans
I’m sitting in a circle of single women, all in their early to mid-twenties except for my co-leader and me. We’re reading Unglued by Lysa Terkeurst, discussing our emotions and how to deal with them in God-loving/self-loving/other-loving ways. Well, how can a group of women have discussions about emotions without bringing up the topic of […]
Honeymoon Heaven
Twenty years ago today I married my husband, Todd Charles Johnson. What a wild ride we’ve been on ever since! Looking back at the beginning, I can’t help but laugh. So I thought I would write about our beginning and hopefully help you giggle, brightening your day. So after the ceremony on the sweltering […]
Dogs + Kings + Sheep = People
Oh that stupid dog! There she goes again, running off and rolling in something dead. And then she jumps in the pond full of scum and drinks and comes out green. What WAS she thinking! Well, I’m sure she was thinking . . . This is GREAT! I’m free to roam wherever I want, to […]
Insides and Outsides
My mother always told me not to judge a book by its cover. Often pretty outsides cover not-so-pretty insides and vice versa. Like this book here I found on the top shelf of our loft library . . . From the outside, it looks like a beat up dictionary or something, not inviting. But I […]