Better than a “forum” . . .

I believe I’ve made my last foray into the Back Pain Forum which I’ve visited online in recent months.  Initially, this forum was a valuable information resource when I needed it—before and after spinal fusion surgery.  It was good to connect with others who had gone that route.  After all, one doesn’t attend a tea party or coffee [...]

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So very grateful!

Winter is moving in, ahead of the calendar date.  This is “business as usual” in Wisconsin.  We normally have several extra weeks of winter before the December solstice and way after the March equinox. Winter is beautiful.  Although I no longer “play outside” like I did for many decades, I still appreciate the winter landscape.  [...]

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Should we bring food?

When our grandsons were born in Colorado, I was invited to visit there and assist with routine household tasks for a few days.  Our Denver son and his wife are members of a congenial church where, as in my own church, people are always available to bring meals.  Each night we enjoyed a fine home cooked meal complete with dessert, delivered [...]

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Changes in the changes . . .

After weeks of deliberation on my part, I had decided to eliminate Riches in Glory because of all my sites, this is the one with very few readers—whereas the other four webpages are frequently visited.   I figured the other sites would be a place to say whatever I need to say.   I went through the hoops to delete [...]

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Numbering our days . . .

This photo shows what our Northern Wisconsin neighborhood probably looks like by now.  The picture was taken at our up-north home in early September, a few years ago.  In about four weeks the color will explode all around us in Southern Wisconsin, while five hours north—where we formerly lived—the leaves will be largely down and folks will be hunkering for winter. Autumn:  a time of beauty.  Autumn [...]

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Praise God for the “normal” things . . .

. . . waking in the morning to the sound of much needed rain, sharing a breakfast at our local “good old boy” restaurant, stopping at the library and leaving with 2 heavy sacks of books, celebrating the progression of summertime in our gardens, sitting in ”our row” in church with 10 great grandchildren—ages 6 and under, gently stepping back in [...]

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Measuring out my life . . .

  For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot Like the famous Prufrock, I’m measuring out my life—only not in coffee spoons, but rather in those [...]

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What the pain-free folks just don’t get . . .

It’s a funny thing, living with pain.  We live with it and life is ever more precious and enjoyable because of it.  Perhaps this sounds masochistic—but it’s not.  The human spirit loves a challenge, and continual challenge followed by the joy of occasional overcoming is heady business! The hearty, pain-free world can’t understand that living with [...]

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Getting on with Life!

It’s been a long time since I posted something new on this site!  In that time, my husband and I have experienced health issues heretofore unimagined by either one of us.  These issues are debilitating and ongoing.  They will not go away, short of miracles defying God’s natural laws.   A few weeks ago, I spent time [...]

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Still valid!

I have been pondering the fact that the word “invalid”, meaning an ill or disabled person, is the same as the word “invalid”, meaning not in use/not workable/not valid.  How sad that our wonderful English language cannot create a different word for each context.  Perhaps the North American Eskimos, who reportedly have at least 100 words for “snow”, [...]

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