What’s New
Cold Beauty, Small Comfort
Hoarfrost coated every branch and blade of grass this morning. But its cold beauty was was small comfort during my walk. My thoughts were with my friend who lost her husband on Christmas Eve. Of how grief has stripped her of joy. Of how quickly her family gathering...
Almost Christmas
Snow is falling slowly, gently. It rests upon the quiet trees and bends dry grass in the ditches. A small, soft mound of white covers the top of the old lamp post that marks the eastern border of our Narnia, there beside the evergreens and the lilacs. For the twenty...
Honey-Mustard Pork Stir Fry
A couple weeks ago, my refrigerator was overflowing with stir fry veggies. But when I went to get chicken breasts from the freezer, we were all out. I rummaged around and came up with a small package of boneless pork chops. Hmmm. A a new stir fry meat deserved a new...
Is Bambi a Peeping Tom?
A heat wave hit Monday. Twenty-two degrees at 7:00 AM, warm enough to walk outside for a change. So I bundled up and took advantage of the balmy weather. From the looks of things, our yard has been crawling with critters during the week and a half I’ve been holed up...
Baking Up a Storm – Recycled
Our lives have changed so much in the past two years, as this recycled post from December 16, 2010 reveals. New jobs, weddings, one book published and another in progress, and not so much snow on the ground this December as in years past. But much is still the same....
Practically Perfect
Mom called Sunday afternoon to see if I’d read the obituaries yet. She gets on these funeral patrol kicks now and then, checking for a final report on old friends, acquaintances, and former students. Well, yesterday she hit pay dirt. “Kathy Knudtson died,” she...