by Margaret Philbrick | Jan 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
I like goals. I like them even more now that I’m basically grown-up and it feels like there are more things pulling on your time every year. I write the goals in my journal at the beginning of the year and then revisit them at the end. Our family gathers around the...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
For my flower obsessed friends, you probably already know this, but I’m just catching on. When it comes to all things beautiful God holds some pretty cool secrets that he waits for us to discover. For our part, we have to slow down and savor the details to find them....
by Margaret Philbrick | Jul 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
This piece of short fiction pays homage to a simpler time when life in summer was spent playing tag in orchards and never once thinking about the time. Special thanks to Julie Lockard whose experiences growing up on a Michigan orchard informed this piece as well as...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Mom, I am so proud of you! It’s been a week since the Coronavirus came to your wing of the building and you are hanging in there. The healthcare workers are doing everything they can to get you over this little set-back you’re experiencing. Thank them today!...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Mom, Whenever I say to dad on the phone, “I have good news and bad news, which do you want first?” He always says, “Let’s get the bad news out of the way.” The bad news today is that someone you know on your floor died of the Covid19 virus last night. He...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hi Mom! Happy Sunday:) What a joy to see you through your window yesterday— Smiling! Sue from the front desk unlocked the gate into your courtyard so I could stand outside the window and chat with you LIVE for the first time since the middle of March. That’s when the...
