Category: Random Thoughts

Weird!

When we were dating, our common friends would remark that we certainly belonged together since we are both weird. Not sure if that word has new or negative connotations but at the time it certainly was accurate! So much so, that 35 years later the child of one of our former students texted me to…

By Mirm January 13, 2018 0

Who am I?

I know I wear a variety of hats in my life. Most of them give me hat head so that I don’t want to take them off.  Nevertheless, I need to be ready to switch roles and I have put some hats on a shelf (pastor) or thrown them out (wife). Often at work I…

By Mirm December 7, 2017 0

The End of an Era

16 years and countless hours on a soccer field, dozens of pairs of cleats, shinguards and uniforms; lots of laundry, sunscreen and gas, and now it is all in the rearview mirror. Clayton has played his last soccer game. Oh, I am quite sure that there will be more games and soccer play in his…

By Mirm November 13, 2017 0

Beach Glass

I love beach glass. I remember hunting for it with my Uncle John along the beaches in New England.  Whenever we found a piece we felt like we had found a treasure, especially if it was a color we had not seen in a while. While people avoid broken glass because of its sharp edges,…

By Mirm July 11, 2017 0

Counting on Earth

Counting to 10 using the Earth 1 earth – only 1 2 poles – only 2  (north & south) // 2 tropics  – Cancer & Capricorn 3 climate zones – only 3 (Polar. Temperate. Tropical) 4 hemispheres and 4 winds – only 4 5 oceans – only 5. (Arctic, Southern, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian) 6 atmospheric…

By Mirm June 14, 2017 0

When I retire

Now this is a subject I have not considered.  And yet 2 friends are retiring this month and 2 others are going part time in anticipation of retirement soon.  Is retirement a biblical concept? I don’t think so, but I don’t think that makes it wrong unless when you retire you actually retreat from the…

By Mirm June 13, 2017 0

Push reset and celebrate irrelevancy

My Current Rant: When I hear leaders who are barely out of college and with very limited experience, who are in a training position, comment that people in their mid to late twenties are too old to relate to students I feel even more marginalized than I am and how arrogant you are. When I…

By Mirm June 2, 2017 0

For Want of a Nail

There is a nursery rhyme that has a great message about the importance of details and ripple effects. For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For…

By Mirm May 10, 2017 0

Floods and Puddles

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.…

By Mirm May 8, 2017 0