This weekend while straightening up my porch, I noticed my front door wreath was crooked. When I removed the wreath to rehang it, I didn’t realize there was a small bird nest built deep inside the wreath. When I repositioned the wreath, three tiny eggs fell to the ground and broke.
I had no idea the eggs...
My home in the country lost one of its more unique features last weekend. Heather, our white swan, was killed. She’d been sitting on a nest of eggs and had taken to sleeping on her nest rather than seeking the safety of the pond. This—and her coloring—made her easy prey for a coyote or fox on a...
I just saw an article on the blog of Publisher’s Weekly, a national book-industry publication, asking the question about the first book that made us fall in love with reading.
For me, books like Profiles in Courage by JFK, Homer Price about a doughnut-making machine, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Five...
Spring sports. Anyone who knows me well knows that the only sporting functions I like to attend are only those in which my kids are playing. And even though all my children are now young adults, two of my sons are still active in sports. And I am still their biggest fan.
Last Friday Cory came home with a...
This year, my husband and I celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary. The cliche holds true for us: it seems like yesterday and yet I cannot imagine my life without him. The bond we’ve shared these years is a bond like no other on earth. I am thankful to God each day for him.
Thus, I cannot imagine...
For the past two years, I have been doing my best at pretending to be a runner. Well, more like a walker/runner. I’ve done the Disney Princess Half Marathon and a number of 5Ks. But I would never consider myself in the same class as those runners in Boston on Monday. And yet, we are the same.
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