What I Learned from Four Weeks of the Flu I learned that it was such a comfort that friends and family just accepted our ups and downs without judgment. Some days we felt almost normal, then suddenly out of nowhere a fever would take us down. Or just weakness. No one belittled us. This made…
Making Valentine’s Happy
Date: Valentine’s Day, 1972 Setting: The Student Union Lounge of a college in Chicago Characters: Two college students Me: So, are you going to ask me to marry you? Husband-to-be: Uh, well, we are sitting here discussing our wedding date. Me: I know, but I’d feel better if you actually asked me to marry you. …
Big Cat
On Monday morning I woke up feeling much better after almost two weeks of flu. Husband had left to volunteer at a food pantry so I decided to take a walk in the snowy woods behind our house. It was before eight o’clock in the morning and I was reveling in walking alone in a winter…
This Train Is Headed for Glory
This week Husband and I have had the flu. We’ve had aches, pains and fevers. Poor Husband joked about the sharp pain in his shins saying there was a rat with a rasp filing his shins! We were miserable together with sinus headaches, upset stomachs and heartburn (at least we both lost weight, yay!). My…
Makes Your Heart Sing
My father-in-law was a laborer in a cement plant. During the long night shift, he worked in tunnels under the huge rock silohs making sure they were depositing rock on the conveyor belts without getting hung up. How could this possibly be a job that fit his love of the outdoors and his alert mind that…
Perseverance
One of our daughters excelled at running track in high school. Many of her competitors had longer legs than she, but she was quicker out of the blocks and had a burning desire to win. On this particular day, she was at a district meet. As usual, she was first out of the blocks and…