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Top Ten Positives About Election Day, 2012
Election Day 2012 is here much to my relief delight. As a citizen of one of this year's swing states, it didn't take too much thinking to come up with a list of the top ten positives associated with the long-awaited end to election season. 10. No more robo-calls for...
A World Lost by Wendell Berry
A week ago, I closed the slim volume of Wendell Berry's Port William novel, A World Lost with reluctance. Since Wendell Berry's books came to my notice twice in the same month a few years back–first through a book review that cited Hannah Coulter as an example of...
More Filled with Faith or Doubt?
But you can’t be serious! You can’t condone evil! So why don’t you do something about this? Why are you silent now? This outrage! Evil men swallow up the righteous and you stand around and watch! Habakkuk 1:13 The boxes in our attic are ordinary enough. A...
Salted Nut Rolls
Since today is Halloween, I wanted to feature a treat that won't play tricks on people who are lactose intolerance or have dairy allergies. With a few modifications, this recipe for Salted Nut Roll Bars from the Shadow Valley Family Camp Cookbook does the trick....
Top Ten Scary Things Lurking in My Refrigerator
Today we're going to enter the holiday spirit and enjoy a good, old-fashioned Halloween scare here at Down the Gravel Road. Not a haunted house. Not a freaky costume. Not a slasher movie. No, we're about to experience something much more terrifying than those mundane...
The Bully at Our House
This weekend, a bully got busted at our house. The discovery, bad enough to begin with, grew worse and worse as the details unfolded. It turned out that the formerly struggling vinca vine, which has been sharing space with the thriving ivy geranium inherited from Mom...