by Norma Thatcher | Apr 8, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
An article in Real Simple magazine of March 2014 told the story of four women who are legally blind. The story’s focus was two-fold: 1) the difficulty of being a mom when you’re without sight 2) the tremendous benefits of being part of a support group The article...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 18, 2017 | Family, Humor, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
One of my big projects for 2016 was something I had put off for years: making for my family eight individually-specific memory books of my son Tim who died in 2008. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to perform this labor of love, you understand. It just seemed...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 11, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking, Words
We’re all familiar with the story line: Long ago in a faraway kingdom, a baby was born in the palace. Everyone was so excited! But no one was more overjoyed than the twelve fairy godmothers because they were entrusted with each bestowing upon the royal child a special...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 14, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
The investigation later determined the cause of the fire had been a pan full of grease sitting on a stove burner that had accidentally been left turned on in a first floor apartment. I had gone to bed a few hours before the windows exploded. My first husband Bill, a...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 11, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
When my parents died, some old paperwork was handed down to me. Among the papers was a love letter that had been written to my maternal grandmother Vera on October 12, 1913, when she was 25. That’s the year my grandparents were married. But the letter was from a...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 16, 2016 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
I wonder why we are so surprised by death. Every single person alive at this moment will eventually die. Your chance, and mine, of living on this earth forever is literally (and I mean that in the truest sense of the word) non-existent. Yet we continue to be caught...
