I’m enjoying these first, crisp days of autumn! Lately I’ve been thinking about various angles of time management…including my perennial habit of putting things off until the very last. Instead of making a project way ahead, I wait to decide what to make until I get down to the wire...
We’re enjoying a refreshing taste of fall! I love these late summer days, when the light takes on a certain golden quality and the air has a particularly delicious edge. I even heard some geese calling yesterday, a sure and welcome sign that fall is on the way! This summer,...
It’s been a most unusually rainy and lush summer so far! On a normal year, we might be in the middle of a drought, with all the dry, crackling grass to prove it. But this year, the grass and trees are green as spring! The bed in the front has...
I recently heard a presentation about creating vs. consuming. He made the point that people in today’s culture are much more likely to eat out at a restaurant than cook a meal from scratch, to read a book than write something of their own, to listen to music rather than...
Did anyone see the solar eclipse? We enjoyed observing it through a pinhole projector my sister, MJ, made from a cardboard box. We also took advantage of small holes in our barn’s tin siding, which acted as giant pinhole projectors and spread several crescent-shaped patches of light across the barn...
Greetings, friends! The past month has been a flurry of activity, surrounding a very special family wedding. What a blessing it was to see so many friends come together to witness the joining of two lives together as man and wife! The newlyweds are now happily settling into married life....