This past week it dawned on me that I had a huge email problem. I realized that every day I was having to spend valuable time weeding through dozens of emails from retailers, magazines, radios, conferences, etc. Even deleting them or marking them as spam was taking time. Time I wanted to protect. Some of them were good places that I’d subscribed to—for example Twitter notifications and even … [Read more...]
What I’ve Been Up to This Summer!
Hi Friends! Like most of you, I have a busy 4th of July weekend. I’ll be hanging out with friends at a barbecue and watching fireworks. Then my family is coming to visit for a few days (my two brothers and their wives and children) and we’ll be traveling to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and Traverse City for the Cherry Festival. It’ll be a busy but very fun time! Actually, summer tends to be busy … [Read more...]
Missing Daddy, Missing Pieces
Last Sunday, we celebrated Father's Day in the USA. I never got to celebrate a Father's Day with my own dad, not counting when I was an infant of about five or six weeks old. I was reminded on Sunday of a paper I wrote for my college English class back in 2014. I decided I would like to share it with you. I had to edit it as it was too long for a blog post, but I hope you'll enjoy what … [Read more...]
Turning the Page
Several pages being turned and new chapters beginning here in the Klassen household lately. For example, last week I heard my husband murmur, “Time to turn the page,” referring to some changes he’s been making in his diet and exercise routine to improve his health and his physique. (He’s determined to look good in the Mr. Darcy costume I’m buying for him to wear during the Jane Austen … [Read more...]
Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places
Last weekend I went out to our patio and found a fun surprise sprouting and blooming in the very narrow sand lines between the bricks. Interspersed intermittently all along the bricks were these tiny, tenacious pansies. I'm not really sure where they came from, but as I pulled the weeds last night, I left these little beauties. Part of me wanted to know as I absorbed their beauty what had given … [Read more...]
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