Recently, while I was sick, I was talking with myself about taking with God about my cold. I was struggling with cough and congestion and not sleeping. And at the same time, people I care about were waiting to see what direction a hurricane would go. How close it would come to their house? And, […]

Ben loves to feed the birds in our back yard. Or, more accurately, he loves working alongside one grandparent or another. They pour seeds from a big bag into smaller jugs, saved from their original use as litter jugs for the cats Ben’s growing up with. The pouring involves an oversize funnel, a big scoop. […]

Rich is always trying new things. And in this one, you will get to listen to him! +++ We decided to try something new for the third FREEDOM TOUR. The first 2 years were 500-mile tours. 2015 was the first year we added a one-day ride. A bunch of people signed up – and I […]

Years ago, I got migraines. Not often, usually just for a day. They taught me that migraines are awful for those who live with them all the time. (My mom argued that hers stopped when my dad had a stroke. She was freed to care for him. I had no argument for that.) What I […]

Our flights on Friday went from Frankfurt to O’Hare to Fort Wayne. Back from two weeks of vacation, two weeks of the part of our family that lives in Fort Wayne spending time with the part of our family that now lives in Germany. But vacation is always tricky. Somewhere between the small German villages, […]