Author Archives: Donna Coulson
Full Circle Again… Happy New Year 2018!
I love New Year’s nearly as much as Christmas. I’ve talked before about how I liked being a teacher because it was a career that provided complete circles – beginnings and endings each year. What I love about it mostly is that, in both the end of a school year or the end of … Continue reading
Christmas recap
Christmas didn’t arrive yesterday morning with a jolly elf dressed in a red suit, suspenders and a plush cap riding a sleigh. No, not even close. Christmas came yesterday at 6:22 a.m. with a crew of burly men dressed in tan or orange shirts with safety harnesses and hard hats riding bucket trucks. Instead … Continue reading
In defense of Christmas cards and letters…
I love sending and getting Christmas cards, and it pains me that the tradition seems to be dying out. With Facebook and email, people just aren’t sending cards through the mail like they used to. I think that’s tragic. I refuse to succumb to this new normal, though, so my Christmas cards got mailed this … Continue reading
Goodness
This week I have been showered with gifts of goodness, grace, and kindness from lots of directions, and I have to admit that the joy of receiving them has been a salve to my heart this week. This good sweetness has come in lots of forms and through many types of delivery systems. Some were … Continue reading
Call the ‘Whaa-ambulance”!
Since we only have generator power right now and no internet, that means no TV – except for movies on DVD. We only have a few DVDs so we put a call out to a couple of friends who threw some of their favorite movies into a priority mail box and mailed them to us. … Continue reading
Make Your Own Fun
Wherever you go, (in my philosophy of life), you have to make your own fun. Rarely does life just hand you frivolity and because of that, we are almost wholly responsible for finding and / or manufacturing our own fun. I was just reading a devotion that discussed happiness and how happiness is the byproduct … Continue reading
God of all Comfort
Pastor John at Frederiksted Baptist preached a timely and thoughtful sermon yesterday (as he does every Sunday!). Since the hurricanes he’s been centering his thoughts on II Corinthians 1:3 that says “God is the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.” John’s messages for the weeks since the storms have been full of … Continue reading
Rock or Sand?
The foolish man built his house upon the sand. The wise man built his house upon the rock. The Coulsons bought a house that is perched on a man-made flat spot half way up a hill. Hmmm. Sand or rock? Not sure now and we are having our doubts. Clean up on St Croix since … Continue reading
Back home again!
This has been a difficult week. When the wheels of our plane touched the ground on St. Croix last Monday, the passengers broke into applause. It was a plane load full of people just like us. People who love and live on the island, but who had been away for the hurricanes. The lady in … Continue reading
