Will I be a grandfather or a grandmother?
Yeah, life. It’s a thing, ain’t it? You’re rolling along, way too busy, doing too much of what you don’t really want to do and not enough of what you do. Then, one day, you […]
Yeah, life. It’s a thing, ain’t it? You’re rolling along, way too busy, doing too much of what you don’t really want to do and not enough of what you do. Then, one day, you […]
I gave the grand-twins a glow-in-the-dark model of the solar system for Christmas, but my daughter tells me the planets won’t glow. Now I’m beginning to worry that my dog may have licked the glow […]
Winter almost beat the Hunter family Christmas celebration. Almost. But in the end we celebrated, if only a month or so late. First there was illness. Then work schedules. Then more illness. Then weather. Illness. […]
Dear Lord, please forgive me for losing my temper with my father. When he offered to drag the kids along while he was food shopping I didn’t think he meant literally, Amen. P.s. Don’t forget […]
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK This time of year, as leaves turn to glorious multicolor, steamy hot days of summer vanish, and autumn decorations go up, I can often be found … crying. […]
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I had a chance to watch my grandkids playing in Albion’s splash pad the other day, and it took me back to my childhood: Jumping in the water, splashing around, […]
On the night of Valentine’s Day, 2014, I was caring for three of my grandchildren. (What else would I be doing on Valentine’s Day?) My grandkids had already had their snacks for the […]
Dear Lord, please forgive our 3-year-old grandson’s snowy entrepreneurial mistake. When he asked if we wanted to buy his lemon snow cones from his winter lemonade stand we didn’t realize our dogs were his silent […]
Dear Lord, please remind our granddaughter’s lovely teenage friend who graciously offered to make us pizza for dinner. When the directions say remove the plastic from the frozen pizza then place in oven, it means […]
Dear Lord, please give me the knowledge and the insight to answer my 7-year-old grandson’s question. “If Andy, Barney and Opie live in Mayberry and cousin Clyde lives in Lewisberry . . . who lives […]