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Be the Bridge

November 3, 2020 by Lanita Boyd

I’ll take a break from my reminiscences of friends in our past to talk about today. Right now. What’s happening here. In my life. I was invited to join a group called “Be the Bridge.” It’s a gathering, for just ten weeks, of five white women and five women of color. We haven’t all been … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: Be the Bridge, diversity, friendships, racial issues

Life Changes

August 12, 2020 by Lanita Boyd

Life changes. How do you read those words? Do you see them as a sentence—pointing out that life is continually changing? Did you see it as a prediction that this piece would detail changes in my life? Obviously, it can mean either or both. A couple of years ago, Steve and I started talking about … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning, Uncategorized Tagged: aging, buying and selling, changes, condominium, moving

A Call From Bill

December 13, 2016 by Lanita Boyd

I was deep in slumber when the phone beside my bed rang. I picked it up instantly, as alert as I could be when awakened like that. An emergency? One of our children or grandchildren suddenly rushed to the hospital? A friend with urgent problems? A death? All this rushed through my mind as I … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: Bread of Life Cafe, calls in the wee hours, Central Church, Cheviot, compassion

Farewell, Dear Friend

September 11, 2015 by Lanita Boyd

My sweet, funny, helpful, kind friend Holly has passed from this life into the hands of God. I weep not for her but for myself, for this life was not kind to her. She was always so much more than she realized and yet so much less than she wanted to be. She was influenced … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: Christmas lights, faith, family, God, Holly

Solitude? Loneliness?

September 16, 2014 by Lanita Boyd

Solitude or loneliness. Which is it for you when you are alone? I hardly ever recall being lonely. Even as a child, I enjoyed solitude. I loved to read, to think, to look at the clouds. I especially loved it when I was old enough to be left alone in our house, even for a … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: loneliness, solitude

Scissors and Tissues–What’s in Your House?

June 13, 2014 by Lanita Boyd

Last week we had a lovely time visiting with friends Jim and Louise in Frisco, Texas. I thanked Louise for having a box of tissues in every room. I’m used to that at home (three in the kitchen, actually) but sometimes when I’m in someone else’s home I have a hard time finding a tissue. … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: compulsions, scissors, tissues, treasures

Amazing: Knowing vs Not Knowing

January 30, 2014 by Lanita Boyd

At lunch recently, a friend said that her adult children will sometimes look at her condescendingly and say, “You didn’t know that?” That makes her feel foolish and inadequate because of not having a college degree when they do. But that happens to all of us at times—not knowing something everyone else seems to have … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: children, humor, understanding, vocabulary

Time for Specials

December 10, 2013 by Lanita Boyd

What happens to my time? I make a plan and try to stick to it. I don’t surf. I don’t spend over ten minutes on Facebook to check for personal messages. I answer enough emails to maintain relationships, send enough to submit articles and keep wheels turning. Specials. That’s what takes up my time. No, I don’t … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: interruptions, learning, listening, special people, teaching

Merge Anxiety

December 4, 2012 by Lanita Boyd

Only yesterday did I realize that I have a disabling condition, though I’ve worked to correct it for years. I’ve labeled it merge anxiety. When I am driving, I cannot, without great effort, simply stay in the lane that merges. No, I am afraid I’ll be squeezed out like the car in this picture. Instead, … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: anxiety, meeting people, merge, merging

I Want to Be…

May 1, 2012 by Lanita Boyd

When we’d been married two or three years, I remember hearing an Earl Nightingale radio broadcast where he suggested that we think of someone we wanted to be like and then study that person to become like him or her. That was the first time I’d considered how much I admired my husband’s sister Nancy. … [Read more…]

Posted in: life learning Tagged: Chicken Annie's, Kansas, role model, support, young couples
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Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

I enjoy my roles as wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, speaker, writer, sister, niece, aunt, and friend. As the title indicates, these are just the musings I might share with you over a cup of coffee.

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