Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Okay. Today we are going to do something totally new and different. So follow me here. I am, by nature and God’s plan for me, whatever that may turn out to be in the end, a very curious person. It has served me very well over the years and worked in my favor to bring [...]

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Those of you who have been following our daily lives here in the "Katrina Zone" know that things have been going some better the past week or two and that I (okay, "finally," – it took a while, I know) was beginning to feel just a bit better about returning to at least a semblence [...]

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[Note: As you can maybe guess, life here lately seems rather insane most of the time. So, when I found these ways to maintain a "healthy" level of insanity, I thought it somehow fit. I didn't write them (couldn't find who did, either), but could have! They are definitely along the lines my mind has [...]

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"I couldn’t even cry," Debra said, talking about the first time she and Ron came "home." Neither could we think of anything to say in response. What could we say. There were no words to express the shock of seeing what we were looking at. Specifically, we were looking at her house Sunday afternoon. Her’s [...]

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Okay – it doesn’t take much to get me excited these days, I have to admit. But just waking up this morning, realizing it was "only" Friday and that I could take a few moments to sit down here to drink some coffee, browse through all my friends’ blogs and actually have time left to [...]

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That’s my motto for the day, today – "Cultivating Calm in the Midst of Turmoil." I’ve actually been practicing a lot of it for the past six weeks (six weeks??!!), but hadn’t given it a name until today. It’s just that I cannot, for the life of me, get back into any kind of routine. [...]

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First, I have to apologize for the "intermittent blogging" that is part of living an intermittent life, which I "sort of," "partially," "kind a" tried to explain the other day. It’s really impossible to explain or describe, even when you are living it. Although I’ll probably keep trying to for a while just to have [...]

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