Author Archives: genesiseve

Okay… I’m not feeling really great today. So how do I turn things around? I know why I’ve been sad. This is the same ol’ same ol’. And focusing on this won’t help me to move forward. So where do I look? I have to look up. I have to look ahead. I need toContinue reading “What a Girl Wants”

So you remember how I said on Mother’s Day that I really don’t see the need to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day since I haven’t had any kids and mothers with kiddos deserve all the props? Well, today I’m going to wish a Happy Father’s Day to all the good men in my lifeContinue reading “Good Men and Great Fathers”

This is my dad. They say that we all see ourselves as the center of our own universe. And why not? Everything in this world begins and ends according to my perspective. I recognize other perspectives, but I’m an authority on my perspective. And so I speak of my father from my perspective. My dadContinue reading “My Dad, John Speer”

 By the Pool  At the River  In The Valley  On the Path  In the Trees  In the Music  In The Wildflowers In the Evening

We walked into the restaurant. Dark wood paneling, beautiful cloth napkins, vaulted ceilings. Everyone looked so fancy. The three of us plodded through the restaurant to our seats. Our table overlooked the whole restaurant. Today, we talked about how my great great grandma Stella passed away at the young age of 42 after having 10Continue reading “The Past is In the Present”

I’ve been changing my weight over the past few weeks. A friend asked me how I was doing it… So here are some things I’m doing. 1) Be accountable to someone other than yourself. I’m in a weight loss competition. This means that I have a group of people who are losing weight with me.Continue reading “How I’ve Been Changing My Weight”

There’s a great song from Avenue Q called “The Money Song”. The gist of the song is this: “When you help others, you can’t help helping yourself!” And the puppets find great joy giving to others. One of the characters is homeless–and he gives his money towards a worthy cause, and the audience hears thisContinue reading “"When You Help Others, You Can’t Help Helping Yourself!"”

America is a pretty great place. A few weeks ago, a man came into the storage unit and told me his story. He had just been fired. He didn’t have the means to pay his rent, so he moved everything out and was going to tough it out in the shelter until he found aContinue reading “Americans”

Today my grandma shared an observation she made in a conversation with a girl in her Sunday School class. The girl commented on how early people used to get married. My grandma noted she was one of those young girls. She told her that her mother wanted her to wait until she was older, butContinue reading “My Complications”

Imagine you’re 81 years old. You decide to move from your two-story, split level home–4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms–into a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom ground floor condo. It makes sense. It costs money to cool a large house and at 81, it’s difficult getting up and down stairs. You decide sooner is better than later,Continue reading “Love and Memory”