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Continue reading →: Where Is Your Life Raft? Finding Your Next Step in Midlife
Have you ever looked around at your life and wondered, What am I supposed to do now? Maybe your children are grown and building lives of their own. Maybe your husband is at the peak of his career, and you’ve spent years supporting him, raising the children, managing the household,…
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Continue reading →: Is It Curable or Incurable? A Midlife Lesson from Real Estate Appraisal
One of the things I’m learning while studying real estate appraisal is that property defects can be classified as curable or incurable. And I’ve been thinking about how much this concept applies to our lives. In real estate, a curable defect is one where the cost to fix it is…
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Continue reading →: The Most Underrated Life Skill?
What’s the most underrated life skill? View all responses I think it’s the ability to be flexible — to roll with the punches. Life comes at you fast sometimes, and it makes all the difference in the world if you can adapt to the unexpected with an attitude of grace…
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Continue reading →: When You’re Rebuilding And the Opposition Comes
This morning I was reading in Nehemiah, and something caught my attention in a way it never has before. Nehemiah and the Israelites were rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. They had begun putting back together something that had been broken down for years. And as the rebuilding progressed, so did…
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Continue reading →: You Cannot Heal While You Keep Giving Other People Control of Your Life
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn about healing is that there comes a point when I have to stop looking at what everyone else did and start looking at what I am going to do with what happened to me. That doesn’t mean what happened wasn’t significant.…
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Continue reading →: What I Have Learned About Rebuilding A Life
There are some things you don’t learn because someone teaches them to you. You learn them because life takes something from you that you never imagined losing. You learn them because the life you thought you were going to live doesn’t turn out to be the life you actually have.…
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Continue reading →: Back To School After 50!
Anyone else decided they want more from themselves than they have previously expected? After being out of school for well over 30 years, I’ve decided to take the plunge. I’m starting with a certification program provided through my workplace, but who knows what I’ll do after that. I figured I’d…
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Continue reading →: About
About Simple Fun and Cheap. I know that there are lots of thrifty living sites and books out there, but I have actually picked up a few ideas along the way myself and this blog is my way of sharing those ideas with friends and family. I always enjoy reading…
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Continue reading →: Jesus Came to Save the World
I’ve been thinking a lot about ministry lately (more than usual I suppose) and I am beginning to see a trend around me that basically seems to make the whole concept of the modern day church seem rather pointless; ineffectual to say the least; and certainly not at all what…
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Continue reading →: Warning! Your Balance May Appear Larger!
Bank Fraud. Plain and simple if you ask me. That’s what it is. Yesterday, I stopped at an ATM machine to get a balance inquiry and was told that I had over a thousand dollars. I innocently believed that since I keep extra money on hand routinely for things like…
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