A dear friend sent me this email today. She knows me well. She knows the beating that 2009 gave us. She cares No matter how badly last year treated you, just walk tall with your head held high. This is a brand new year, baby! Yeah, it may have just been a forward but it was a funny one...

I bet you think I’ve been sitting on the couch – wrapped in a warm blanket with a nice, big cup of hot, black coffee near me – avoiding this blog. Well you’re close. I usually sit in what I lovingly refer to as my duck chair. It’s a chair with ottoman that are covered in a mallard-themed material. Thus its name. You probably thought it was in the shape of a duck. You really have very little faith in my...

While I was looking through some of my old writings that are saved on this computer, I was surprised by how relevant most of them are today. I realized that my writings on the web began days after the terror attacks on 9-11-2001. Only because I was looking for a more convenient way of publishing what I wrote on the web, the site gradually morphed into blogging. I had no idea what I was getting myself into at that time and how many rabbit...

No, as a matter of fact it has not been a month. I think that’s something I can be proud of, don’t you? I must be getting in the swing of things already. It’s hard for me to believe that just a couple of years ago making sure I had something to post daily meant everything to me. I remember spending hours and hours each evening typing away. God forbid a post, if even just a meme, wasn’t ready for public viewing the...

Call it an urge or maybe a feeling that it’s time but if I can recall how this whole wordpress bloggy thingy works then I am coming back. God has done so many amazing things in me and my family in the last year that I don’t think I can keep silent anymore. After moving into this house and being led to join a wonderful Spirit-led church family, God has not stopped teaching, stretching and growing each person in this...