Misc.

It was another day in paradise…drugs all over my counter and lots of work still to be done. (Don’t be alarmed, nothing illegal is going on here…I’m a pharmacist) Between the front counter, drive thru window, flu shots and prescriptions.. The day was nonstop. I apologized to the customer standing at the counter. “Hi! Sorry

When I was in fifth grade, my parents picked me up early from school because we had received some bad news.  My grandmother passed away in India, so we would be traveling there for her funeral. Once there, I remember standing with my cousins under an outdoor tent with waves of heat hitting our face,

Do you ever feel disconnected from God because you can’t tell Him how you really feel?  I know that for most of my life I felt that it would be disrespectful to admit to God my doubts about Him, and even how unfair life felt at times.   But recently I read the story of

We all have dreams. Dreams for ourselves and, if you are a parent, dreams for our children. From the moment my children were born, my wheels started turning. Who will they hang out with? What colleges will they attend? What about their careers? What kind of girl will they marry? Every now and then, God

As a child, my family would spend about six weeks every other summer at my grandparents’ house. They lived in a very small village in Kerala, India. I remember playing with rocks, trying to kill larger than life spiders, bumpy car rides and drinking Tang made with water from our own well. I would watch

This past week, the lights went out in my daughter’s room, and it has not been an easy fix.  She has no problem with that, though, because it means she doesn’t have to sleep in her own room, which she is absolutely thrilled about. While her brothers are carted off to their rooms at bedtime,

Not sure how I missed it, but I did. The big warning on the side of the taco shell box that states- do not use in toaster oven. Well, I did exactly what the box advised me not to do. I wasn’t trying to be rebellious. I was just trying to heat up some taco

Have you ever had one of those amazing cleaning days? The kind where the whole family gets involved in the work. Folding laundry, mopping floors, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms.  Like little elves, everyone does their part. And voilá, within hours, your home is clean. What would have taken you all day is done before lunchtime. There

The evening before the birth of my second child, I went into a “nesting” phase, that time of urgency to clean and organize to prepare for my new baby. I had decided that our bedroom needed a splash of character, so I had bought a few frames and pictures to put up on the wall.

Last night, I watched my husband and his father scroll through pictures from the past year. Pictures of a totaled car, pictures of dad and mom surrounded by tubes, connected to a ventilator, and then there was this picture. A picture of us praying. It was the first picture of hope. This picture was taken