by emilyneal | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was reading a story recently written by a widow who was going to remarry. She was explaining the collision of joy and sorrow on her wedding day. She was getting ready to marry someone she loved deeply, but at the same time still suffering from the pain in her heart...
by emilyneal | Mar 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
During the past week since I wrote my last blog post about Ash Wednesday, I have probably composed nine other posts to try to open the vent valve on my brain. Writing is my therapy, but my attempts to center my thoughts by releasing them through the keyboard have been...
by emilyneal | Mar 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dozens of people gathered on our deck on a warm evening in early August for hamburgers and hot dogs. Some of these people we’ve known for more than a decade. Others, we were meeting for the first time that night. Many of them have multiple kids involved in...
by emilyneal | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. It is definitely NOT the most anticipated of all days on the calendar. The bigger religious “holidays” are celebrated with colored lights or pastel eggs. The theme for Ash Wednesday is darkness and ashes. We don’t observe...
by emilyneal | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was really hard to type the words “loved” and “February” in one sentence. Oh my word, February! We started out with a the after effects of January’s Polar Vortex. That was followed by an ice storm, which destroyed my favorite tree....
by emilyneal | Feb 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was looking through some stats for my blog this week, when I noticed one of my pins on Pinterest has significantly more traffic than anything else I have ever pinned. It was a photo of the inside of my bathroom cabinet at my old house. I had placed four simple...
by emilyneal | Feb 25, 2019 | Celiac Disease, Uncategorized
Now that I’ve been on a Paleo diet for two years, people ask me all of the time what I eat. I usually give a basic explanation of what I do and don’t eat on Paleo, but they respond in a similar way: “No… I mean EXACTLY what do you eat?” I...
by emilyneal | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve always had a weird memory for dates. I love numbers. I’m intrigued by data. I like remembering anniversaries of random things. I even love math. Dates on the calendar seem significant to me. As we entered into 2019, I was struck by a strange collision...
by emilyneal | Feb 22, 2019 | Creativity, Silhouette
A few years ago, I downloaded a few of the gymnast cut files from the Silhouette store for our youngest daughter who has been doing gymnastics since she was three. I’m amazed at how many times I have been able to use those same files to make cute custom crafts...
by emilyneal | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from a credit card company. I let it go to voice mail, assuming it was a telemarketer. When they called back the next day, they alerted me that more than $1,000 worth of merchandise had been charged to a store credit card I had not...
