Author Archives: Becky Dingle

Dear Reader: This old dog is in the process of telling her old desk top-computer good-bye after a-decade and switching to a Cromebook! Wish me luck! 🤣 Today I will start shopping and keep you updated on this challenging transition … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Pain and gift in the same sentence sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it…but is it…really? Having endured my fair share of physical pain…through cancer procedures…including three radiation rounds of treatments, three separate surgeries- one including an eight hour … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When did society mix up the allotted value of a  career or achievement… over the value of a person…him/herself? For most of us…we distinctly understood, while still children, that our parents highly valued our visible achievements…good report cards, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Haven’t we heard conversations in which people jokingly talk about their problems with guilt by throwing out lines like the title one today by Erma Bombeck?  Or they might say: “Oh, I’ve got major Catholic guilt…the discipline that … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: With all our talk about grace and gratitude lately on the first anniversary of the Covid19 pandemic…I felt a need to stop and thank my garden for being there for me during the dark days and bright ones…it … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Lately most of us have been caught up in the first anniversary memories of the pandemic… that became disclosed to us as a nation a year ago…changing our way of life  so abruptly that we were all captured … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The internal conflict that goes on inside us (for way too long) in many of our lives… is the dilemma of how to fit in (with our peers when young, later our working colleagues, friends and even family) while being … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As I was looking for a book to loan a neighbor I came across the anniversary painting that Anne did for me…located now in one of my “show-off” bookshelves…celebrating ten years of writing the Chapelofhopestories.com blog post. What … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I read this true anecdote in Guidepost last year that still tickles me whenever I get a question that I find difficult to answer. Yesterday Mandy brought Eva Cate and Jake to Summerville since their teachers were being … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I had so many responses from you yesterday…that I knew we had to have an “Extra Extra” edition to Andy Stanley’s original idea of making our own personal headlines from the life we choose to share each day! … Continue reading →