Searching for a Balance

A year ago I made a skirt from some fairly heavy weight cotton velvet. I wore it once.  The problem was, because of the thickness, I di...

I'm joining Ginny this week with another pair (the sixth!) of these handwarmers  which are so appealing and easy to knit. I'm re...

I used to be in the habit of writing quotes on paper scraps - things which seemed like truth to me and which I knew I'd forget unless I ...

"The reward of the unhurried is the real life."                               -   Ann Voskamp

I'm going to have to call the Audubon Society, I think. Who else? A week ago I looked out the back door and saw a robin right there. O...

"Seaweed is an interesting person, competent, sure of himself...His own house is across the road and up a short distance, but he can be...

We haven't had much snow this winter. But today - it's a snowy day. After work I walked up to my neighbor's for a brief v...

helps herself to a warm bed, that is.

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."                  -     Pearl Buck     (from Simple Abundance)

Our house faces westish, and yesterday after an early dinner when the sun was getting lower, the sky behind the house got that darkish deep...

My mother sang in the church choir and I'd usually go up with her.  A nice lady up there once gave me a set of three machine-embroidere...

Our beloved ornamental cherry tree, which sits in front of the house and blooms so magnificently every spring - Our dear tree which w...

Christmas present to give, that is. I'm in no hurry. May each Christmas, as it comes, find us more and more like Him who at this...

With reports of such cold temperatures around the country, I offer this from Miss Read's Christmas Book : Sunday, Christmas Day, ...

one friar piping?  Well, it is a bit cold for sandals, so I guess I shouldn't expect the other ten.

Cyndi brought me some Fanny Farmer chocolates for Christmas. She had a reason for it. When I was a child, before the days of shopping...

I finished my cowl finally. I do like it! I wasn't sure - I've never had one before. I guess I need to block it. Thought I mu...

A sunny spot in the living room with a bit of hand stitching, listening to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring  on the radio. Wit...

"If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every mo...

Like every Christmas, we spent it with my Italian side of the family.  Very lively. Kissing everybody. Rum cake. Laughing. And a ...

(painting by Heather Sleightholm)

"We do not dare to believe or trust the incredible truth that God could live in us, and live there out of choice, out of preference. Th...

The Smart Cookie I'm talking about is me.  I've mentioned  these  before. Once you've had them you don't forget them. A...

I'm joining Ginny again for yarnalong . I've begun knitting a cowl for myself, just because it's a good way to use up some Wool...

I see him, though not now; I behold him, though not near; A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall rise from Israel. - N...

The Music Lover, lulled to sleep after enjoying Christmas carols.

We've got some snow on the ground; now it's really winter. It's feeling like Christmas. And another of the things I do in Adv...

"The genuine significance of Catholic devotion to Mary is to be seen in the light of the Incarnation itself. The Church believes that t...

Today was the feast of  St. Lucy , who is especially revered  in Sweden . Which is a fascination to me, as Protestants don't genera...

In the current issue of Country Living  is an awfully cute idea with inexpensive salt shakers, small bottle brush trees, a miniature stag a...

This, inside a card we received yesterday:     During this Holy Season, may your hearts be warmed with the golden memories of all the happ...