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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 2, 2024 | memories, smiling, Uncategorized
As I reflected on how much importance April 1st has had on my life and reading and hearing so many funny April Fool’s Day jokes and pranks yesterday, it occurred to me how apropos this little sign truly is that is sitting on my dining table, not only for my...
