by Norma Thatcher | Sep 24, 2016 | Family, Home, Humor, Inspirational, Thought provoking
The magazine article was about a mom around my age who was trying to convince her 30-something daughter to take Great-Grandma’s set of good china that had been packed away in the attic for twenty years. Daughter wasn’t interested; Mom tried to guilt her into taking...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 20, 2016 | Thought provoking
It was the night before Easter: March 30, 2002. On my way home from a late church service, I stopped by the grocery store for a few items. The parking lot was all but deserted. Most people were likely home watching one of the Final Four basketball games or filling...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 17, 2016 | Inspirational, Thought provoking
Elmo from Sesame Street is one of those endearing characters who forever stays a little boy, er, monster. I seem to remember that a phrase from one of the earliest versions of the talking toy based on the character was, “Elmo got new shoes!” As you may recall, Elmo...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 13, 2016 | Humor, Thought provoking
Ah, the first hint of fall is in the air. As a favorite line of poetry goes, “…the air was ripe apples and the colors chrysanthemum.” But when I was 13, I knew autumn was around the corner when the Sears Roebuck fall catalog arrived. As I’ve shared before, I must have...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 10, 2016 | Inspirational, Thought provoking
Most of us tend to think of a stairway going UP in positive terms. Climb the steps of success The view is better at the top Work your way up Reach toward the light Stairway to Heaven But the image of a stairway going DOWN is generally considered in negative terms....
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 6, 2016 | Inspirational, Thought provoking
Are you old enough to remember when a certain brand of tea bag included a message on the paper end that connected the string to the bag? It was either something humorous or a piece of homespun wisdom, kind of like a fortune cookie message. Except there was no...
