Sometimes saving can be better than spending. — I have had to pinch pennies for much of my life. Learning to save money meant I would have enough money for things I might not be able to afford otherwise without making an effort to save. I learned to save when I was young. When I was a child…

Abortion bans, men, and women This is NOT an article for or against abortion. It is about shared responsibility. Also, this article is NOT against men. …

The things we hang onto for our survivors to throw away because we can’t or won’t. — Might it be better to toss things overboard instead of holding onto everything we have before we come to the end of life’s journey? When my parents passed away this past year in May and in September, my sister and I were left with a house filled with my parents’…

Family dynamics For many people, the greatest influence on their lives has been their families for good or for ill. Families make us or break us. We usually don’t get to choose our families, but sometimes we do. In fact, we may reject our birth family for a collection of…

when it tells you something is wrong. Our minds can protect us. We have the ability that spiders do to protect us from danger if we pay attention. Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt like something was off kilter with the situation or with the people…

What have you left unfinished? — I recall as a teenager seeing a framed cross-stitch sampler on my grandmother’s bedroom wall. The name on the sampler was Myra Edna Thompson. It was dated June 16, 1880. Edna was my grandmother’s older sister. The sampler is incomplete. This fact has always intrigued me. Why was it unfinished…

What’s so bad about enjoying oneself? No one calls fun, happiness, joy, glee, or delight sinful, but pleasure gets a bad rap and is often associated with sinfulness. In the Bible, pleasure is associated with excess or perverseness. According to an article on Christian.net, “The seven deadly sins are considered…

The unknown and the unexplainable In this world of facts, and data, and science, and knowable proofs, we need the unknown. We need ghosts and aliens, and the unexplainable. …

Why To Do Lists Are Detrimental to My Mental Health On Monday, I wrote out a to do list with ten items on it. All are important. Some are urgent. Now, two days later, and I have only been able to mark one item off my list. Just looking at…