Having sweet memories of a fun day, remembering our youth! This was in May 1972 almost two months after our first date on April 1st! We were married in July during summer semester and moved into married student housing for his last two semesters at AU! Then moved to...
From: Pat Sabiston <patsabiston@irawriter.com> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 11:15 AM To: ‘Cathy Byrd’ <cathybyrd1212@hotmail.com> Subject: Here You Go! Dear Cathy: It’s weird. As I began to write about what I remember, other...
I have lived in exile from the world many years but it didn’t seem so strange when Bill was here with me. I’m still adapting to this reality. But Christ is closer than ever all the same… the presence of the seedbed.com online community helps...
In 1980 I made my first trip to my pastor’s office seeking counsel. I cried as I told him about my boss, a married man I had known for 3 years in my workplace who was flattering me, courting me like a love struck adolescent boy…. I was tempted. And I was ashamed....
I love(d) my husband, Bill, who died recently. And I know that Bill loved me. There were, however, ways in which we hurt one another over the 48 years of our marriage. And although we came from families that made it clear that divorce was not an option, that doesn’t...
There are a number of responses making the rounds on the ‘net to a 2007 article by John Rosemond, psychologist and parenting guru, that has been reproduced recently and has gone viral. His point is that idolizing children and catering to them creates demanding...
