by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 18, 2013 | Family
This is the day when we write for five minutes non-stop, no editing for Lisa-Jo Baker’s “Five Minute Fridays”. So, here it goes: I finally did it. On the Thursday before he was to come home from college for fall break, I rummaged through the pile of...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 11, 2013 | Family
Blogging today at Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday. Those were such “ordinary” days — those weeks, months and years when our four boys sat under their Mom’s tutelage. Trying at times, rewarding most of the time, we were just...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 4, 2013 | Family, Slice of Life
Winter will soon be pressing in on us here in this Indiana valley and today seemed like the perfect day to make plans for spring. An afternoon stop at my local home improvement store turned up packages of colorful anemones, purple crocus and an array of red, orange...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 1, 2013 | Faith, Family
Between doing loads of laundry…..checking off that college packing list….swiping at those unbidden tears…. I popped the CD on the top of my music stack into the CD player and was taken back 40 years to my one and only year in college. “You just...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Aug 20, 2013 | Faith, Family
So much I can’t tell you…..but surely you know. Blue moon rises on this summer night and as I watch, I’m caught in memories of full-moon romps, of little boys rolling in grass lit bright as day, calling out so we wouldn’t miss the silliness. Calling out so we’d be...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Aug 10, 2013 | Family, Good Books
About determination….. “Stop fighting the current of your life and struggling to be somewhere else. You are exactly where you need to be. This is your (writing) life. There is no other like it.” Sage Cohen, The Productive Writer Our family is...
