Posts with the tag “judy-adams”

The holidays are here; we have decorated, prepared meals, wrapped gifts while we anticipate the celebrations of the birth of our Savior. Yet something looms beyond the festivities, family gatherings, ...  Read More

Autumn always finds me in a melancholy mood. There is a greater sense of the passing of time. I understand Yeats’s poem “When you are old and gray and full of sleep” better than ever because many days...  Read More

Like many of you, I recently watched the Olympics. I saw favorites win medals in their specialties and unlikely winners emerge in individual and team sports. These athletes train for years with coache...  Read More

We all have families of one kind or another. Sometimes family members live close to one another, others live miles away. We may celebrate milestones like birthdays, graduations, marriages, or forget e...  Read More

For the first time in years, I have a vegetable garden which has been producing far beyond expectations. The result is that I am sharing squash, eggplant, cucumbers, jalapeno and green peppers, and an...  Read More

In the spring of the year, before Wayne died, we would often find ourselves driving through rural Southside Virginia. Dominating the landscape were fields plowed and ready for crops or just showing si...  Read More

These last few days have been a breath of fresh air after all the rain early March brought us. Michael and I have been busy with yard work that somehow gives us a new perspective on the landscape arou...  Read More

Surprised, I looked closer at my knee. Yes, there it was, after all these years: the scar still with the cinders that Dad was not able to clean out when I fell off my bike onto the unpaved road I grew...  Read More

The ashes lay black and gray in the bottom of the fire pit. No lingering embers, no smokey smell. Only ashes, remnants of a brief, blazing fire which gave us warmth and light on a cold New Year’s Eve....  Read More

This is the season of Advent in the church calendar, from the Latin for “to come to.” We have come to prepare for the birth of Christ. Yet preparation is the starting point; the word itself suggests t...  Read More

I’m one of those people who cannot sit still for long; there is always a mental “to do” list in front of my eyes. Combine that with being easily distracted and getting off track. It’s a wonder how any...  Read More

For the past five weeks I have been taking an online course offered by BeADisciple.com entitled “A Life Worthy of the Gospel” which focuses on Christian Ethics. I have been challenged and edified, sha...  Read More

I have been reflecting this week on the recent visit by our Navajo sisters, Pastor Evelyn, Sharon, and Mariah, and brother Robert. Even with only visiting them three times, I feel as if they are famil...  Read More

I suppose it is only natural at age 75 to consider my life to this point. I recall a recurring theme in conversations I have with older people: they do not want to become useless, but remain useful, a...  Read More

I am not a person who can live with clutter. The last few weeks have been a challenge as I have had to confront the clutter in my former home’s closets, cabinets, and places I had even forgotten I had...  Read More

Has life ever come to you so fast that you feel as if you are on a roller coaster, changing direction every second? Welcome to my world. Overseas trips, moving into a new home, and, oh yes, getting ma...  Read More

As March approaches, those of us who live near the Bay have learned to expect strong winds, even Nor’easters, to buffet us, causing limbs to fall and bodies of water to overflow. One of the first thin...  Read More

How is it that I am always preparing for something—the holidays, doing taxes (ugh), planning a big 50th birthday for a family member, and, oh yes, a marriage. These all take time, planning, and commit...  Read More

In this time of the shortest day of the year, some things still seem lighter and brighter – the stars at night, sparkling frost and snow, sunlight dancing on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. I have a...  Read More