The advertisement says “Buy one and get one free.”  What a deal!  You pay for the first, but that second one is free!  How could it be?  Can anything these days really be free?  Actually it isn’t really free.  It is an advertising gimmick to get you to pay the full price for the […]

That was easy for my grandson! Grandma bought him a laser tag set and he immediately opened the package. He recruited his sisters, who had their own presents, to play with him and his gift. At 13 years old, he received mostly “teenager gifts,” but the kid in him still wants to play. Grandma’s gift

This is the time of year when people think of giving and receiving gifts. I don’t want anything, because I am so blessed and have what I really want. I appreciate more the love behind a gift, than the gift itself. My daughter asked what I wanted for Christmas and I give her a few

     We lived overseas for the past 15 years, and weren’t always able to come home for Christmas. The last time we spent Christmas with family, in our own home; our daughter was still in college, she and my two sisters-in-law were single and my mother-in-law lived with us. That means this Christmas will

Typhoon Odette/Rai passed through the Philippines, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Winds destroyed homes, floods washed away lives and livelihoods. Where there once was abundance, now there in want, and for those who had little, now they have none. Death tolls are high and will go higher. This isn’t the first time they