by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 9, 2026 | family, Gifts, heart, memories
We didn’t get to visit with our Birmingham children over Christmas, but yesterday, a package arrived from our daughter. In it was a lovely “Stitches and Petals” necklace. It is a hand stitched flower on fabric mounted in a silver charm on a neck...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Christmas, memories, tradition
1/2/17 CBB When dismantling all the “Christmas” around our house, I generally wind up forgetting one or more small things tucked away here or there. Tonight I realized I had three little glass trees in the hutch in the kitchen. I was picking them up when...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2026 | Comfort, love, marriage, memories, writing
1/2/2015….(a memory recalled 1/2/23) “We had a pull chain come out of the light fixture on a ceiling fan. Bill took it apart, figured out what to do, ordered a replacement part for less than $5.00, had it in two days, and installed it this afternoon. Call me...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 25, 2025 | memories, time
Time is a strange thing when filtered through the lens of memory. “I had thought that Bill’s cousin, Dr. Bobby Echols, died on Thanksgiving weekend and that this Thanksgiving (2019) would be 2 years. Bobby’s sister, Debra Echols Turner, texted me this past week with a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 17, 2025 | Gifts, life change, loneliness, memories
Ten years ago I was posting about loneliness at holiday season and organizing “Neighbors’ Cookie Swap event in Lynn Haven. It seems to be a perpetual and pervasive experience in our culture today. A mere five years later I was widowed. The next year our daughter...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | home, marriage, Memorials, memories, stones, symbols, Thanks, worship, writing
In the hymn sung today in the Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” JD Walt noted in it a reference to raising one’s Eben Ezer, a stone of remembrance as a testimony to God’s work on our behalf. Bill and I have had an Eben Ezer that...
