Loading posts...
  • 2746585883 eac82ce7fd

    Lent- Day 7: You say acquiescence, I say injustice.

    One of Martin Luther King’s mug shots. (Image source.)   I had IVIG infusion treatment, and my nurse Charlie shared with me about his time serving in the military in the early…

  • explore landing trolls

    Lent- Day 6: For all are trolls.

    The gang from “Trolls”, from the Dreamworks site.   Admit it: At one point or another, you have probably said something unpleasant online that you later regretted—and that you wouldn’t have said…

  • 58bc54ba1500003900abd426

    Lent- Day 5: Scandalous.

    Mary Astor. Image via Public Domain.   “Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.” – Ecclesiastes 7:7   My, my, my, Ms. Astor, your dirty diary is…

  • oceans instagram

    Lent- First Sunday.

    (Image Source)   Happy Sunday. Today I’ll just leave you with Hillsong UNITED’s Billboard topping megahit, “Oceans (Where Feet My Fail)”, and an invitation to send any prayer requests you may have…

  • 02 missing richard simmons.w710.h473

    Lent- Day 4: Missing.

    (Podcast art for Missing Richard Simmons)   Have you heard about the new podcast Missing Richard Simmons? I listened to the first three installments this morning and am hooked. Not since the first…

  • p183959 b v8 ab

    Lent- Day 3: Buy truth, don’t sell it.

    (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in “I Love Lucy”, via Google Images)   I just finished the Audible version of “Lucy and Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television’s Most Famous Couple”…

  • earthsun1

    Lent- Day 2: More Glorious.

    (Google CC Image: link)   I was feeling pretty low on the general state of humanity yesterday, and rightfully so. Today’s Scripture reading of Romans 8:22 shows just how deep our stinkiness…

  • FullSizeRender 9

    Until you return to the ground.

      By the sweat of your brow    you will eat your fooduntil you return to the ground,    since from it you were taken;for dust you are    and to dust you will return.” -Genesis 3:19  Ash…

  • FullSizeRender

    What to expect when you’re expecting…

    September 2016, and I have (some) hair.     … to get better, but haven’t. Yet.  It’s been four months since I had the Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) at Northwestern in…

  • Baby, I’m just soggy from the chemo.

        On the April 12th, I underwent the first round of chemotherapy for the stem cell transplant at Northwestern. I was given a rather large, private room, complete with a spectacular…