l'chaim   to LIFE   לחיים

We should live open-handed and prepared, with the full realization that we don’t know what’s in store for later today or tomorrow.

Does anyone write personal letters anymore? Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. ~ Proverbs 13:12

Last weekend was such a joy, having all of our kids together for first time in a year! Our daughter Bailey missed her family and so came...

I just discovered I’m a few weeks early, but then I only just guessed there might really be a “Best Friends Day”. So now that you know,...

Our son recently turned 21. We celebrated his birthday together up north on a beautiful Friday, walking our property, enjoying a good...

Fifty-six years ago this month, the great civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote a telling letter from his jail...

I do not have one of those disturbing photos of myself with the Easter bunny. Thank goodness! Have you seen some of these?!! I actually...

Last weekend was a big one for Michigander Scott Spry, syrup-er extraordinaire. He collected thirty gallons of sap from the sugar maples...

This week, I welcome guest writer Bella Spry, our dear daughter, as she writes a movie review: I first read the book Unplanned a few...

I really struggled this week, putting the right words on the page. I now realize that it wasn’t writer’s block, no constipation here....

When I was around four-years old, I was struck by a car in the street in front of my house in Hazel Park, Michigan. It was a warm summer...

First, the good news. We all experience disappointments, so you’re not alone. And, they can be catalysts for positive change. The bad...

I was made in early October, more than fifty years ago, during the fall of 1969. It was the age of the sexual revolution and “flower...