by Norma Thatcher | May 22, 2020 | Interesting information, Thought provoking
What WERE my parents thinking? I was just shy of 16 and so naïve and innocent that anything could have happened to me. But they blithely put me on a train by myself in Johnstown, PA, bound for Chicago for a vacation with my sister. (See post from May 16.) That was a...
by Norma Thatcher | May 16, 2020 | Family, Interesting information
The summer of 1966 I was nearly 16. My sister Barbara gave me the gift of a vacation that was an amazingly big deal to me; I had never been on a real vacation. Our family of eight (six kids within a twelve-year span) from a small PA town didn’t have the money for...
by Norma Thatcher | May 9, 2020 | Family, Love
This will be a strange Mother’s Day across our land. Typically, two places are full on the day when we honor our moms (churches and restaurants), but not this year. I have had several people tell me that they even forgot that Mother’s Day is this Sunday. I’ve compiled...
by Norma Thatcher | May 1, 2020 | Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
“Our nervous system comes prewired to pay attention to negativity. And it’s jacked up by trauma.” So says Dr. Joan Borysenko, leading mind-body expert. Is it any wonder that so many of us are feeling anxious, on edge, or in just plain old dark moods during these...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 24, 2020 | Family, Love, Spiritual
Don McLean is most well-known for his iconic “American Pie” folk-rock song from 1971. (I’ll wait for a bit while you sing a few lines because you know that you want to.) But I prefer his hauntingly, beautifully sad song “Empty Chairs.” There’s a link at the end so you...
