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O Lord, Give Me Patience Immediately if Not Sooner
One Sunday morning our pastor described impatience, the attitude of demanding to receive what we when we want it, as a sin. His words made me feel quite smug. Because I'd just spent 3 months patiently doing hand exercises and patiently waiting for the thumb tendon...
Tiny Town, Gigantic Heart for a Cold Fantastic Friday
Iowa's been in the deep freeze all week. This week's Fantastic Friday post warmed hearts 3 years ago when this story of a tiny town with a big heart first went live, and I hope it does the same now. Tiny Town, Gigantic Heart Long time readers of this blog have been...
Oven-Baked Fajitas
The test kitchen at our house is is officially open for 2016. The first offering of the season isoven-baked fajitas. The recipe, which is making the rounds of Facebook, is low fat, chock full of veggies, and contains no diary. When served on warm tortillas, however,...
Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions I Wish I’d Made
For some reason, the first week of January 2016 was a highly productive one for a certain inhabitant of our gravel road. Had I known on January 1 what I know now, the following New Year's Resolutions would have been listed and checked off in 7 short days, rendering...
See Jane Languish!
January's cold. Frigid even. So I thought an update on the status of the mystery novel See Jane Run! might cheer folks up. Before writing this, I checked to see when the the last update was posted and was shocked to discover it was September 21...just a few weeks...
Feeling Not Just Old, But Ancient on this Fantastic Friday
This post from 2012 made me smile when I stumbled across it. Because Iowans need as much to smile about as possible in January, I'm passing it along to you on this Fantastic Friday though it reminds all of us that we're 4 years older and even more ancient in 2016. Not...