Searching for a Balance

A few months ago at work, I met a young Indian woman amidst the cookbooks. She asked if I knew of any baking clubs around. Baking clubs? The...

That was my one thousandth post, the other day!  I suppose maybe I should celebrate it. And since I'm on such a roll making thes...

Saturday it snowed all day, steadily. All day, and in the end maybe two inches. Funny. Tomorrow sounds similar. We seem to be getti...

Apparently, just like us, when mushrooms sunbathe the light they absorb turns into vitamin D. Then, when you eat them you're getting th...

"There is only one journey. Going inside yourself."                   -   Rainer Maria Rilke

My brother went outside suddenly this afternoon and I wondered where he was, until I heard the chopping and stomping on the roof, and the gl...

Because we have been forgiven, we know the way of forgiveness; because we have been healed, we know the way of healing; because we have know...

I have a bookcase in my bedroom which was full of books, on every shelf. But I just couldn't stand that any more. I guess I'd s...

We got this new book at the library about using straight needles to knit your socks. The author has invented a special way of doing this ...

After reading  Leila's blogpost  about thinking ahead and cooking more than you need right now, I decided to buy a few butternut squash...

with more of the same predicted for this month.

One of the most touching things - on the laundry again when your little dearie gives you her tummy for a rub, and to say she trusts...

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...