by Patti Miinch | Dec 31, 2020 | 2021, authenticity, New Year, one, one little word, one word, Patti Miinch
The past few weeks have been incredibly hectic. My granddaughter’s first birthday (complete with birthday party), Christmas, two visits from my son and his family, and getting ready to move to a different community in early January, along with my normal tasks and...
by Patti Miinch | Dec 10, 2020 | 2021, focus, just one word, one little word, one word, Patti Miinch, prime time living, word
Words dominate our lives. We speak and sing them, read them, write them, hear them, and think them. The barrage of words — from both external sources and from our own internal dialogue — can be distracting, even overwhelming. It can be helpful, then, to step back...
by Patti Miinch | Dec 8, 2020 | Bible, Bible study, Patti Miinch, Rachel Risner, significant, significant - six ordinary women one extraordinary God, study
Significant – A Study of Women in Jesus’ Genealogy: Six Ordinary Women, One Extraordinary God (Bonfire Books, 2020) is, as the cover states, a study of six women in Jesus’ genealogy. In the “Author’s Note”, author Rachel Risner, wife of a minister and...
by Patti Miinch | Nov 19, 2020 | accountability, bicycling, dreams, goals, kedging, life, live, Patti Miinch, plan, prime time living, retirement, tricks to treat yourself
Ahhhh . . . retirement. A time of doing as much of the things we want to do and as little or none of what we don’t want to do.That’s what I thought life beginning the first day my own retirement. I had made a list of things I wanted to do more of or add to my life,...
by Patti Miinch | Nov 12, 2020 | anxiousness, are you emotionally hungover, COVID, election, emotionally hungover, fearfulness, grief, hopelessness, hungover, lethargy, melancholy, Patti Miinch, prime time living, sadness, weariness
I occasionally experience what I call an “emotional hangover”. Before I go on, I want to stress that an emotional hangover is something that is temporary and, for want of better word, “mild”. If you are experiencing any of the emotions I’m about to talk about to...