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A Different Mother’s Day Perspective
This Mother’s Day, my temptation is to wax poetic about the joys of parenting adult children who are whole and healthy. And there are plenty. Both are happily married. Both like to call and chat, ask for advice, share recipes. Both think I’m much smarter than when...
The View from the Window
Most of the year, the view from east our bedroom window is run-of-the-mill. Our lawn. The neighbor’s driveway. The rise of a hill and woods in the distance. But for a few days each spring, our view is a thing of beauty... If a warm March doesn’t lure the magnolia buds...
Baked Oatmeal
Today’s recipe is the latest entry in my all things oatmeal crusade. In fact, I can’t believe this recipe hasn’t been posted before this, since it is a family favorite that gets rolled out for weekend company and holiday gatherings. It’s especially tasty on cold...
In Pursuit of Truth – Recycled
Today’s recycled post revisits a controversy that caused great excitement during it’s first airing in May of 2008. The whole issue is a moot point around here, because it the last three years, the spruce trees around the former asparagus patch won the battle for...
The Great Reunion
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter...
Family Roots
Roots may be Alex Haley’s claim to fame, but this spring I’m claiming the title for me and my house. Why? Because the cuttings from the family heritage geraniums I put in water more than a month ago have sprouted roots aplenty. This goofy gardener has four jars full...