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Sunday’s Thought (s)
Hold On, Keep Going, Trust and be Trustworthy. At the Sacred Heart Catholic Church last week, at the Saturday evening service, the priest said a few things that I have been thinking about. I sometimes attend the five o'clock mass with my friend Teresa, but she is in...
Friends
Chip has been my best friend for years. It was just the two of us in Alaska, with no family and I wanted a big one here so far from where we were from, so we had all these kids (5), and he was busy at the lumberyard everyday, all day, and I was at home holding down...
If We Make it Through December
It was a Merle Haggard kind of day. When I told the carpenter and my husband that I had my radio show today and could only work this morning and there was a lot to do still-- they laughed, and suggested that I had higher priorities, such as dusting and setting up the...
December is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful…
Which makes no sense, but is a riff on a Jimmy Buffet tune, and he is one of my favorites thanks to a college roommate from Florida who brought his albums to our Vermont dorm room in 1981.The line comes from popular The Weather is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here style...
December 4th Sunday’s Thought
Last night when the puppy woke me at 1:50 to go out to pee and poop (why he poops more at night I do not know). I pulled on a coat and boots and walked him down the hard-packed snow path to the beach. There were stars, and a moon, and I could hear the ice moving in...
The Third of December
Have you noticed a pattern? (Hint: three in a row.) I'm trying to be my own Advent calendar. Blame it on the daily Advent devotion from Marsh Chapel at Boston University. (I started listening to the Sunday services during the pandemic and still do, except not on...
Dec 2
“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” — Amanda Gorman It is the 2nd anniversary of the fatal slide and life-altering weather event. It seems both far and near-- so much has happened since then, and we are...