Marching Right On Up
I've been thinking a lot about prayer recently. I probably should tell you right up front that structured prayer has always been the...
Amish Work Horses
A few weeks ago I was following a discussion taking place under a couple of photographs on a good friend's wall on Facebook. The photos...
Buttons and Straight Pins
I began writing about the Amish a week or two ago. I wound up writing about chickens. Let's see how it goes this time. When my children...
The Princess and The Lieutenant
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful little girl born with a kind and tender heart. She was that rare kind of soul that loved and...
A Little Dirt Never Hurt
It's time to do some spring gardening. For some reason all of the dead leaves from the entire neighborhood wind up in my butterfly...
Anger and Fear
I've learned so many things about myself in the last year and a half. You'd think that would make writing easier. But this is a blog,...
More Useless Facts About Me
1. I once cut several inches off the trunk of a real cut Christmas tree with a butter knife. Why? Because I needed it to be shorter to...
Hell Is Not A Cuss Word
...and neither is damn. They are Bible words. But the devil is shrewd. And if he can make them commonplace, then they lose their...
Amish Chicks
I may or may not have mentioned that our family has spent the last twenty-five years living on the edge of an Amish community. I have...
Happy Mother's Day!
Tomorrow is Mother's Day. And for the first one ever, I will not be in the physical presence of any of my children. Don't be concerned....