by Norma Thatcher | Sep 19, 2021 | Family, Love, Prayers
I live in the countryside so it’s usually very quiet at night. Since it’s just my husband, me, and the dog who are here, there’s not even much household noise after 10 p.m. Grace the beagle is an excellent sleeper. About the only noise she makes in...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 12, 2021 | Family, Love
What started as a family tradition with my two young children and me morphed into an ongoing inside joke between my grown daughter and me. And now you’ll be in on it! When Laura and Tim were young, we would stop for ice cream (or Slurpees) after any doctor visit. I...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 13, 2021 | Home, Love, Spiritual
Be honest. How often do you read poetry? For a while, it seemed to me that poetry was on its way out. So I was happy when the 2020 winner of America’s Got Talent was Brandon Leake whose talent was identified as “spoken word poet.” And of course with Amanda Gorman’s...
by Norma Thatcher | May 10, 2021 | Interesting information, Love, Thought provoking
It seems as if some people I don’t even know love me. Maybe it’s happened to you too. Don’t get me wrong: I do believe I’m a fairly lovable person, and I’ll take all the love I can get. But the person saying it needs to really mean the words for it to count....
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 28, 2021 | Love
The year I was twenty, the movie Love Story was released. Starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, it was an instant box office success. The sixth highest-grossing film ever in the United States and Canada, its success would translate into around a billion dollars in...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 21, 2021 | Inspirational, Love, Spiritual
This story has waited for three years. God’s time says today is the day to tell it. During the Christmas season of 2017, my cousin Beth emailed me with thanks. She began, “Thank you for empowering me to speak.” Beth had attended a Christmas gathering of an interfaith...
