Author Archives: joyocala

This is a blog that I originally wrote in January 2019.  This week, Rich and I are on a little vacation and I am looking for a quicker way to get a blog to you, gentle readers.  As I read … Continue reading →

If you ever read Psalm 16 in the old King James Version, you came upon an oddity in verse 9. “Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.” What in the world … Continue reading →

            Have you ever thought about the personality traits of various people in the Bible?  I’m sure you have in the context of a particular action, such as Peter cutting off the ear of the high priest’s servant, but here … Continue reading →

  When I was about twelve, Dad bought a canoe. We went out for a trial run in a nearby reservoir. It was him, my Mom, my brother, and me. Steven and I sat in the middle, Mom in the bow … Continue reading →

It’s already November, just a few short weeks until Thanksgiving!   The supermarket will be well supplied with turkeys.  Cranberry sauce will appear on the endcaps.   Pies will be abundant.  Time to be sure my tablecloth is ironed and ready! Oops, … Continue reading →

My two boys lost their amazing dad when they were 10 and 14 years of age.  I agonized over my own loss of a wonderful husband, but I also felt agony for my boys.  At the moment of their dad’s death, our lives were … Continue reading →

I enjoy how the Nightly News with David Muir always ends with a positive story.  I know I have mentioned in several of my blogs how the media tends to focus on doom and gloom.  I don’t always watch the … Continue reading →

I have been reading Trevor Noah’s autobiographical essays entitled Born A Crime.  Noah, a South African comedian, was born five years before the end of the practice of apartheid.  At the time of his birth, it was a crime, punishable … Continue reading →

Today is the Festival of Simon and Jude, two of the Twelve who were called by Jesus. Problem is we know almost nothing about Simon and what little we can guess about Jude is utterly confused. Simon is called the … Continue reading →

            We are coming up to Election Day, and this election season we have been inundated with political ads on television.  There have been so many that I’m looking forward to seeing lawyer ads again.  I thought there has to … Continue reading →