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Too Beautiful for Words
I can't tell you how nice it is to have the kids in the kitchen-- and exclaiming about the snow, the mountains, the trees, the snow-- and then after lunch to go to a basketball game in the "big school" gym ( the fifth grade cousins were playing and Ivy and Lani...
Made for Goodness
The title of a library book that I learned was overdue while I was traveling, thanks to the library's automated notification system, is Made For Goodness. I could not for the life of me recall reading it or checking it out, and thought I had returned all my books,...
Not Thinking Much This Sunday
I have been traveling in the land of very limited Internet access (it still exists deep in the swamps and plains of central Florida) and got back in time to make a cake for the Hospice bake sale (which Chip promptly bought so the family could eat it) and to babysit...
Florida Lessons
Here are a few things I learned at the 25th annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference: The farther north you go in Florida the more southern you are. The proper way to introduce my mother-in-law, Grandma Joanne, who winters here in Ocala, is "My husband's...
Heading South
I am off to Florida, to visit Grandma Joanne and attend the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society conference in Ocala. I will give a little talk on what I learned about writing and life from the the author of one of my favorite books, Cross Creek (and the The...
A Pyramid Island Postcard
There are two times a year when the tides are low enough and the Chilkat River is dry enough to walk to Pyramid Island on the tide flats, Spring and Fall, and the Spring walk usually falls around Easter, so while we were all watching the kids find Easter Eggs Sunday,...
Sunday’s Thought: Happy Easter!
"Love one another." - Jesus Christ Oh my gosh, I lost the stuff for the Easter baskets. I put it up high somewhere so the puppy wouldn't eat the chocolate, and now I have no idea where it is. Oh well. The babies are too young to really know what the Easter bunny is,...