All 10 Popes

Remember that book by Judith Viorst titled Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day ?  It was one of my very favourites growing up (maybe because I've always struggled with being a grump in the morning). Yesterday, that was me. Kari and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day. From the time the sun ebbed into my bed room until the time I wished it would go ahead and go away because that meant some relief...oh, sweet relief of the day being over. Just over. It's always easy to point the other way. Recently, on Facebook there was a cartoon of a mother crayola and her two kiddo crayolas (one blue, the other pink...or red maybe). Standing there was this mother crayola staring down on her two kiddos (much like I do mine) because there was blue colouring all over the wall. The "blue" kiddo is pointing at the red one saying "it was her." The picture came with the added line at the bottom, "I'm not color blind kid!" I can rel...

There was this girl I once knew Perhaps, it was you, that knew her too This girl, she had all the answers Though her heart, full of questions...murmurs This girl, she's moved afar Anger, wrath, even hatred fill her heart There was this boy I once knew Perhaps, it was you, that knew him too This boy loved to play ball This was the thing he loved most of all This boy dealing with losing a loved one so dear And this girl, knew that pain too, brought her right near This ball, this boy and girl These three become friends hard to unfurl These friends, these three friends from the start What they think is love grows inside their hearts Lust, is never...ever really good Things turn, unexpectedly out as these two never thought they would A new beginning was started, a journey of sorts The hills were high, and valley's weren't short Rocky is the road that leads to redemption But these two they stay committed Yes, committed they stay Then there was th...