It is interesting how each of us have different memories which turn into traditions or anti- traditions. I grew up the oldest and hated Easter egg hunts because I always had to hunt in a separate room from my siblings. On the flip side, I love many of the traditions of Easter and was once […]
Archive for the ‘Memory Mondays’ Category
Resurrection Buns
Posted in encouragement, Holidays, Memory Mondays on April 20, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot remember your laugh!
Posted in grief, Marriage, Memory Mondays on November 5, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Jim, I never thought it would happen, but 8 years after you went to heaven I cannot remember what your laugh sounds like. I cannot remember other things about you but nothing bothers me as much as not remembering the sound of your joyful silliness – one of my favorite things about you. I […]
Floods and Puddles
Posted in Marriage, Memory Mondays, Random Thoughts on May 8, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
My mind flooded with thoughts of a woman I never met. Today would have been Jim’s moms 91st birthday. How do I know that?! Why can’t I let some of those little dates go? Her only brother will be buried next week and I wonder if I should go and take some sand from Barbados. Anyway, […]
It’s My Birthday!
Posted in Holidays, Memory Mondays on September 12, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know what day it is? It is National Encouragement Day! National Chocolate Milkshake day, Police Woman Day and National Video Games Day! It is also the day that I was born. I share this day with Jennifer Hudson, Maurice Chevalier, Madame Curie, Henry Husdon and Bob Brouwer among others. Birthdays are one day we […]
My $65 Education
Posted in Faith, Marriage, Memory Mondays on July 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This story Jim often told and it was published in a book titled “College Faith 3”. Ed by Ronald Alan Knott. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews univeristy Press. 2006. excerpt by James W mohler. Chair, Christian Ministries Dept. Trinity Int. University, Deerfield IL As a young man just out of high school,I found the cost of […]