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Neither Easy or Quick – Recycled
This week’s recycled post comes from two years ago. The manuscript for A Different Dream for My Child had recently been sent to the publisher. Allen was job hunting in the midst of the worst recession since the early 1980s. Mom had decided to sell her house and...
Cold, But Not That Cold
After a quiet weekend with absolutely no commitments, a rare occurrence, I can’t think of a subject worth blog space for today’s post. If Hiram had worked on the bathroom remodeling, a progress report would have been in order. But he worked on taxes, and who wants a...
Beth’s Chicken Enchiladas
It’s cold in Iowa today. Our thermometer said - 8 this morning. And though my grandparents used to say this kind of weather was too cold for snow, it’s snowing. Not hard, but enough to make the countryside blowy and unwelcoming. So this is a day for comfort food, warm...
Gluttons for Punishment
Hiram and I must be gluttons for punishment, diving into another bathroom remodeling project. We managed to finish the last one - adding a shower to the upstairs bathroom tub which required tearing out old tile and putting in new plumbing, new sheetrock, new tile, and...
Unbroken by Lisa Hillenbrand
I usually don’t cry when nearing the end of a biography. After all, biographies are about famous people, and we already know how the story ends. But in rare cases, a life story is gripping enough and the writing brings the subject alive. In those cases, the...
Do You Ever Think About Death? – Recycled
One look at the title of the blog entry originally posted in January of 2008, and I knew it would be this week’s recycled post. For the past three weeks, death has been on my mind. Not because someone is dying. Because I’m writing the section of Different Dream...