This week I found encouragement in, of all places, a cross-reference. Part of an adventure journey is shutting off the noise and actively seeking. We may seek answers, reasons, or someone special. An adventure journey has a destination and choices. Choosing to investigate another path can actually help the journey. This week, my foray off the path brought me the strength to keep going.
Continue reading “Suffering Christmas”
Yes, the mountain girl went to the beach yesterday, Christmas Eve, and that is Florida ‘snow’ that you see on the water. A cold front moved through SoFlo* this morning. The high yesterday was eighty degrees with winds, cloudy skies and a chance of ‘snow.’ As I write this, the temperature outside is fifty-five degrees. We expect the low tonight to be forty-two degrees. I’d better cover the plants! BRR! {Guffaw!} This is as close to a White Christmas as we get. Can you see the whitecaps on the Atlantic?
Continue reading “A Merry Christmas from Florida”
Sing along with me! “…On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me nine ladies a dancing… Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas”
Today my mind is on Christmas seasons that were downright awful. In my fifty-odd years I’ve seen great, good, boring, awful, and painful Christmases. There are Christmases so boring or bad I can’t remember them. Continue reading “Awful Seasons”
The second day of Christmas has me back at work for a couple of days and thinking of Christmas blessings. Continue reading “Christmas Blessings”
I thought I might try something new. A short thought on each of the twelve days of Christmas. I must say day one has been the best Christmas day in years. Continue reading “Christmas Tree Down!”
I know the title is a bit morbid. Please bear with me. It’s not as bad as it sounds. Saturday morning I was reading my novel.* I came across a common phrase, “His grandmother would turn over in her grave!”
What happened? All the sudden my preparations and stuff have overshadowed something. Did I miss something? Where did he go? Continue reading “Christ in the Crush”
This week felt like a major strategy session. The mission is the taming Milly’s Chaotic Crazy Christmas Traditions. I spent most of the year ignoring the Big “C.” Then after my Blackened Friday, I decided some decisions had to be made. My first reaction was to pull out my ‘Nuclear Option:’ Skip Christmas 2016 altogether. Continue reading “Plotting Christmas”
Milly Really! 