Her Father's Homestead

Category: encouragement

  • What’s in a Word?

    A quick peruse of Roget’s online Thesaurus gives many synonyms for the word hopeful.  My favorite? There are several, but blithe and buoyant just kind of roll off the tongue.  I love words and languages, and words, as I am known for saying,  matter. And frankly, I’ve been witnessing some challenges with words.  Are the…

  • “It Doesn’t Happen in a Neighborhood Like This”

    That’s what the neighbor said on TV.  Another woman is dead, killed this morning in a nearby county by her husband and people are shocked because it doesn’t happen where they live. Sound familiar?  It sure does to me.  I’ve been there and even said those words.  People in my former neighborhood weren’t out brawling…

  • Gaining Ground

    I’m still playing catch-up from the weekend misfortunes, but at least I’m playing.  I definitely had an attitude challenge going and thankfully,  have moved through it.  My house is almost normal, though my ears are tuned to the on/off cycles of the furnace and I”m less than completely unpacked.  But my truck is running and…

  • Welcome Home, so they say, anyway…

    An eventful weekend.  First of all, I didn’t leave South Carolina Friday night on my scheduled flight.  There was an airline issue and my choices were stay with Meghan and leave Saturday morning or leave Friday night later, miss my connection to Green Bay and spend the night at O’Hare.  Hmmm, wonder what I chose?…

  • I Won’t Do It …..

    No, I won’t, I will not title this nor will I think in terms of how many hours are left before I get on a plane and head for home.  I just am not ready to think about my time here with Meghan coming to an an end.    So I will focus on the…

  • New Year’s Blessings!!

    So this is the last post of 2008 as I won’t be back at this computer again this year, maybe Friday morning, but that’s 2009, imagine that~~   As I’m at the library again and the clock is ticking, I’ll be brief and save the deeper thoughts for the upcoming weeks.  And there are so…

  • Jump Out of the Boat!!

    As mentioned earlier, we attended a great church, Seacoast Church, just blocks from Meghan’s apartment, on Christmas Eve, and then a satellite campus in Mount Pleasant on the weekend.   The young preacher had a great message and I have two points scribbled in large letters on a piece of paper that were made during the…

  • Just Catching Up

    This is being posted without links or more than a cursory spell-check so please bear with me if you come across errors.  It’s hard for me to do things this way, but it’s either post or be done for the day and it’s only 10:30 a.m. so I’m going to close my eyes and just…

  • Time Out!

    Greetings from the Richland County Public Library in Columbia, South Carolina.  My daughter’s computer has imploded, but luckily the library is within walking distance.  And because I’m NOT in WI, I easily walked over here to the library.    I anticipate being back at the blog on Monday, December 29th – my Meghan and I are…

  • Countdown 57 hours – First Day of Winter

    Okay not even the low number of hours till I’m hugging my Meghan can begin this post.  The feature here is, get this, minus 6° (6 below zero) air temp with a WIND CHILL of  minus 28 degrees.    That’s a wind chill factor of 28 DEGREES BELOW ZERO right now, as I’m writing.  Didn’t…