Today my kin will gather to celebrate Christmas Eve. We will do all the things that are expected at such gatherings - eat, drink, and be merry. Between now and then, I will make an inordinate number of enchiladas and homemade tortilla chips for my contribution to our holiday meal. Our family loves a Mexican [...]
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The best gifts…
Day 73 of the new normal…
Today's blog is a special shout out to the former Galleria apartment residents. This is day 73 of their new normal. On one hand it seems like so much time has passed and on the other it seems like it wasn't all that long ago that we stood there helplessly watching the building burn. The [...]
Operation Christmas Child – thank you for the gift!
Yesterday, The Forum ran an article about Operation Christmas Child - http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/259840/publisher_ID/1/. This was the first I had heard about this project that delivers shoe boxes of small gifts to less fortunate children all around the world. I was aware of at least a dozen other organizations focused on a similar mission, but not this [...]
THE NEW FORTY 