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Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions I Wish I’d Made
For some reason, the first week of January 2016 was a highly productive one for a certain inhabitant of our gravel road. Had I known on January 1 what I know now, the following New Year's Resolutions would have been listed and checked off in 7 short days, rendering...
See Jane Languish!
January's cold. Frigid even. So I thought an update on the status of the mystery novel See Jane Run! might cheer folks up. Before writing this, I checked to see when the the last update was posted and was shocked to discover it was September 21...just a few weeks...
Feeling Not Just Old, But Ancient on this Fantastic Friday
This post from 2012 made me smile when I stumbled across it. Because Iowans need as much to smile about as possible in January, I'm passing it along to you on this Fantastic Friday though it reminds all of us that we're 4 years older and even more ancient in 2016. Not...
Grandma’s Recipe for Wash Day
Today's recipe comes compliments of my sister. She passed it along a year or so ago and reading it reminds me of how easy life is today compared to the lives of our grandparents and their grandparents. I haven't tested this recipe, and don't plan to. But if you take a...
Top Ten Observations about the New Star Wars Movie
The Man of Steel, our son, and I went to the new Star Wars movie on New Year's Eve. We all loved it. I'm ready to see it again to confirm that the ten observations below are completely accurate. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, reading this post requires no...
What Were You Thinking?
“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1: 20–21 A few weeks ago, we...