Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us sweet girl. SASHA APPLEBY 1/19/2006 – 6/29/2016 Loved every single second of her beautiful life. It eventually gets to a point where the tears running down your face feel like acid sloughing off your skin…..and the pain in your chest becomes a desperately aching void…..and you…
Earlier this week, my brother Bernie was seriously injured in a farming accident. The radiator on the tractor he had been cultivating with, exploded. He received 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his face, arms, back and chest. By the grace of God there were no inhalation burns and his eyesight was spared. After a…
My dad. Born in 1923. Born in Bear Lake, still lives in Bear Lake. Grew up in incredible poverty, on a farm, part of a big family. Worked that farm swinging a plow behind a pair of Percherons (there’s not a lot of people alive who have actually done this anymore) Got his nickname “Bud”…
My biggest faults: 1. Chasing after people who don’t want me. 2. Worrying about what others think. 3. Being too emotional/sensitive. 4. Apologizing for things that are not my fault. 5. Harboring expected reciprocity of feelings. 6. Depending on others to feel good about myself. I have spent (as of tomorrow) 50 years not feeling…
I want to share a story with you. It’s a little bit strange, and a whole lot of wonderful. It’s something that happened to us. Something that restored a bit of hope for us, that we’re not invisible, and that we matter. Toward the end of 2012, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, some exterior under-ground piping…
We know a little first grader in the town where we live, the son of mutual friends, named Robbie. His class is doing a map project by collecting postcards from around the United States and the World. If anyone would like to help Robbie out by sending a postcard, here is the address: Robbie Vavrik/Miss…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
I’m sitting here in my living room with my cats and my dog, watching CNN. They were showing the photos of all the Sandyhook victims followed by a random act of kindness posted on social media….something that was done in the name of one of the victims. I am moved to quiet tears as I…