Lisa Reads: Employment Options: The Ultimate Resource for Jobseekers with Disabilities and Other Challenges by Paula Ruben Viellet (My Employment Options)Â I am distinctly ambivalent about this book, but I will give it tentative positive review. After all, it is … Continue reading →
“Tessie Mara Favor! Don’t make your Daddy and me come in there one more time tonight!” The little girl pulled the sheet and blanket up over her head and closed her eyes tightly. “No ma’am, Mama. I’m asleep.” Mama spoke … Continue reading →
I have had a hideous cold since January 3. I probably should have gone to the doctor, but I am as stubborn as all get out. I’ve been taking it easy and drinking water. It still sounds like I have … Continue reading →
We’ve closed the door on 2018. There have been gains. (For example, after 30+ years of friendship, Bob and I admitted that we might like to try to overcome distance and finances… And that we like each other.) There have … Continue reading →
IV. [JUSTIFICATION]1 It is also taught among us that we cannot obtain forgiveness of sin and righteousness before God by our own merits, works, or satisfactions, but that we receive forgiveness of sin and become righteous before God by grace, … Continue reading →
I admit it. A couple of days ago, I was surfing the web when I should’ve been writing. Guilt about my lousy efforts at writing in September was probably leaking into October, but I didn’t know it at the time. … Continue reading →
The other day, a friend asked me how I am doing with my goals for 2018. (What a mean thing to do!) Of course, I had been successfully avoiding the question on my own. If I had been keeping up … Continue reading →
Goal setting terrifies me. It feels like I’m getting locked into something that I don’t necessarily want to do, all because I think I’m supposed to do it. Sometimes, it feels like setting a goal guarantees that that is the … Continue reading →
