After placing a handmade Christmas wreath on my parent’s grave and wiping my tears away, I turned to leave and spotted him in the distance. Mr. Baker is a long-time member of the church in which I grew up, and he was standing in the lower parking lot making preparations for the 34th Living Nativity …
Tag: COVID-19
The Angel Returns
Recently, I went to the mailbox to retrieve the daily mail. Quickly flipping through the couple of postcards offering to "buy my home" and an AARP membership request, I almost passed over an envelope with the return address logo of Georgia-Pacific, Consumer Products. I paused for a moment, wondering why I’d received correspondence from this …
It’s Essential (the saga continues…)
A few months ago (it SEEMS like months, but was actually only about 4 weeks ago), the COVID-19 pandemic had basically shut down the world. Dad and I were forced to "go rogue" in a quest to secure the requisite tomato plants for the summer, making a trip to Uncle Pete and Aunt Edith's "essential …