Grandma

How Things Come Together When God Tries To Get My Attention Part 4

*A note before you read this. After doing an audit of my blog in 2022, I have decided to leave content that speaks to the Christian I was at the time this was written. I no longer identify as Christian (and haven’t for a very long time.) I chose to leave these posts because it is who I was then … Read More

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Feeble Prayers

*A note before you read this. After doing an audit of my blog in 2022, I have decided to leave content that speaks to the Christian I was at the time this was written. I no longer identify as Christian (and haven’t for a very long time.) I chose to leave these posts because it is who I was then … Read More

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Amazing Grace

    *A note before you read this. After doing an audit of my blog in 2022, I have decided to leave content that speaks to the Christian I was at the time this was written. I no longer identify as Christian (and haven’t for a very long time.) I chose to leave these posts because it is who I … Read More

Now What?

*A note before you read this. After doing an audit of my blog in 2022, I have decided to leave content that speaks to the Christian I was at the time this was written. I no longer identify as Christian (and haven’t for a very long time.) I chose to leave these posts because it is who I was then … Read More

Artuality–Month 2

Heather Goodman has started a monthly festival: Artuality. This is month 2. Artuality is a festival for artists and art lovers to share the place of art in their lives. Every month we’ll focus on a different art form. This month we’re talking about movies. When I first read Heather’s prompt question for this month, “How have movies or a … Read More

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Grandma Schalk’s Poem for Phil

Written when Phil was 8 months old, on Phil’s mom’s seventeenth birthday (she was the baby of 7.) I’m told my little dare-devil of a husband used to climb to the top of the stairs and jump all the way down. That’s what this poem’s about. Grandma’s Angel Darling you need lovingLike the grass needs the dewYou’re our precious BabyWe … Read More

Special Darling

I didn’t know Grandma Schalk wrote poetry. Poetry isn’t usually my cup of tea, but the poem I want to share today (and I’ll be sharing one tomorrow about Phil) have nearly done me in. I’ve cried more tears over these two poems than I care to admit. Grandma Schalk would have celebrated her 93rd year on this earth December … Read More

Painting Lessons at the Funeral Home

I wasn’t brought up sophisticated. Yet, somehow art found its way into my heart. Or maybe it was always there and I had to let it out? I was fascinated by a print of tree roots my mom had hung by our front door. It was a rather popular print back in the 70’s and I was told it was … Read More

Grandma’s Gone Now

I want to tell the whole story later, right now, I can’t. It was just her and I and I was singing Let There Be Peace to her. I sang, “Let me walk with my brother…” and she was gone. Visitation will be at Rees Funeral Home, Brady Chapel in Lake Station, IN Sunday. I expect the website will be … Read More

Impressions

I do understand about people having a strength that is also a weakness. Mine is my mouth which is always yapping when it should be shut. I wonder if it boils down to a point of view or experience. I’ve met some people (my grandmother) who are pure mean. Hateful, bitter, spiteful, nasty. She’s been two-faced for as long as … Read More