Thoughts on a Dark and Stormy Night

It’s come to this…sitting in an office littered and cluttered so beyond belief that I’d burn it if I didn’t share the building with two other humans and six equines. And if I didn’t love it so much. The Gala is coming, and this is the week before the Gala, and it is a dark…

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Spring Is Here!

Woke up this morning at 7:22 but of course it’s the first Monday under Daylight Savings Time so it was really only 6:22, which is the time I normally wake up. Drat! Now I can’t take my morning walk! I hate Daylight Savings Time! I’m a morning person. My finest hour is taken away and…

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Rebekah’s Smile

Today is Rebekah’s birthday!We met Rebekah for the first time when she and my daughter Kelly went to church camp together when they were about eight. When Rebekah was 13 she started coming to Ranch Camp and went on to move into Martha House, where she’s lived since 2006. Rebekah’s the first of the “Crop…

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That’s My Room!

“That’s mine!” Saturday morning the excitement of Sterling, Kyle, and John finally drowned out the shouts and calls of the work crews managing the pour for the new house on the block—Isaiah House, where the four guys from Joseph House will move when it’s completed. They weren’t the only ones excited. Jerry parked himself at…

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