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Blueberry Crisp
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you’ve seen this picture before, and I’m sorry. Can I plead pre-school reunion excitement coupled with wedding excitement as the reasons for no photo of the bang-up blueberry crisp we ate last Thursday evening? If those aren’t enough, I’ll...
Queen Anne’s Lace
Four days until the wedding, and what did I find? A dandy patch of Queen Anne’s lace, swaying tall and graceful, in an easy-to-reach spot by old Highway 30 east of town. The flower lady, also known as my sister, plans to gather the the lovely weed, to use as an accent...
Back Home
I went back home for the Fourth of July weekend. Not to where I live now. Back to where I grew up. Back to the people who knew me way back when. Back to reunionize with the steadily shrinking number of folks who share 1960s and 1970s memories of our home town. The...
The Top of My To Do List
For I am God and there is no other; I am God and there is no one like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning And from ancient times the things which have not been done... Isaiah 46: 9b - 10a This summer, my life has been like one of those movies that starts with a...
You Can Take the Cowboy out of Harding County…
We had a houseful over Father’s Day weekend, with both kids and their sweeties home for a joint wedding shower. The weekend with them was pure joy. Our two old children and our two new children are thoughtful, kind, loving, and well-mannered. Watching them, I marveled...
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
The British actress, Patricia Routledge, has been one of our family’s faves since we first saw her in Keeping Up Appearances. She’s best known for her role as snobby Hyacinth Buckett in the sitcom that aired in the early 1990s. But she also had a long stage career,...