Planning for Summer

Here I sit on the third day of April dreaming of the spring and summer adventures ahead:

•  Family visits on our April trip: son, daughter-in-law, brother, sisters-in-law, niece, daughter and six grandkids..What a joy to look forward to seeing them all.
• Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa in June, a week spent with my college roommate from Wooster's Class of 1956. Could we really be that old?
• Heartland Theater in Platteville, WI, performances of "Fiddler on the Roof" with grandson Quinn in the cast.
• Visit here with my daughter Becky and grandchildren, Lillie and Russell. Other visits from the Wisconsin grands as well, of course.
• Presentations for Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) on Medicare for a local audience.
• Publishing of my book TOO MUCH LEFT UNSAID in June.
• Visits to local bookstores and libraries to promote my book.
• Activities at Church for the 150th Anniversary Year.

And before I know it--Fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas again. 

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Advent Resolutions

Christmas joy and peace be yours as we wait for and work for Christ's coming again.

I send out my Christmas letters after Christmas.
     I decided years ago that I would not write Christmas letters when all the other hubbub of preparations are calling mr.
     My desire to touch base with friends is more neaningful for me, and maybe for them, if I wait until Christmas is over.

But this year I am getting the jump on resolutions by making them now--at the start of the church year--in Advent.

1. I resolve to be a better listener. I know I learn more when I listen than when I talk.
2. I resolve to keep in touch with old friends and make new ones.
3. I resolve to organize my desk, my files, my house, and my thoughts.
4. I resolve to try "to let the goodness of God express itself in my obedient heart and mind and will."

That should be good for starters.



What will you be resolving for 2013? Leave a response or email me at collinsleej@gmail.