“Daddy, can we make a pile of leaves and jump in them?” Annie and Emma are helping me clean up the backyard. After a week of low overnight temperatures my fig tree had dropped it’s leaves and I was raking them up to throw in the dumpster. Growing up in Iowa, fall was my favorite […]
About 12 years ago when we moved to the Phoenix valley one of the things we wanted to do was find a church to attend. We visited quite a few. One Sunday during a worship service at a church in Mesa, the pianist played a solo. An arrangement of an old hymn. It was one […]
It’s a question that’s been posed to most of us at one time or another. “If your house was on fire, besides your family, what would you grab?” This past week a friend of mine called and asked me to come help him on a job. We both have a cleaning business. He also does […]
You heard the phrase more than once during the Christmas season. “Let’s wait till after the first of the year.” You may have heard it from me. I said it quite a bit. “After the first of the year.” During the frenetic Christmas holiday we speak of early January as though it were a wide […]