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 | 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 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...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Jul 13, 2013 | Faith, Family, Good Books
(This one is for you, Uncle Jerry.) Indiana summers are unpredictable. One year, a drought. The next, a deluge. Life is kind of like that, too. Sometimes, we feel as if we’re in a desert. At other times, storms rage around us and we fear we may be drowning. But...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Nov 7, 2012 | Slice of Life
In October, I traveled “31 Days to Crazy Joy” with the author Ann Voskamp. Reading her book, “One Thousand Gifts”, has altered my slant on life and over the past year, counting joys and blessings has brought a richness and light to my days....