Searching for a Balance

If you are middle-aged, you may remember this: We sometimes had it when I was a kid - my mother always liked lamb. She was quite a go...

they always like to come up next to the roses.

She didn't know what she was laying her little head on, but there could be no better caption for our Dolly.

While I think about whether I'm going to use buttons or ties to finish my button quilt, I've picked up this other one which I piece...

well, still because he was sleeping.

Making sure you serve an extra vegetable plus a starch does make a difference, doesn't it? During the week I often serve our main dish...

for dinner - braised lamb chops roasted carrots with mint and honey haricots verts with herb butter small red potatoes, boiled, wi...

the fur is different on different parts of his body.

"Holy Saturday is the day of the 'death of God', the day which expresses the unparalleled experience of our age, anticipating t...

     "We often feel oppressed, exhausted, frustrated by something vague about our trials. The Lord urges us to give our troubles a name...

A ring-necked pheasant came through our yard the other morning - he was all dressed up.

Come, let us return to the Lord, it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. He will revive u...

Jesus defends Mary from Judas and her other detractors, as he defends the lowly, the brokenhearted, the captives of every kind. For their sa...

It was an open window for me all last night in the mild air! By Wednesday we'll be back down in the forties.

Jesus falls beneath the weight of the cross, so that he may support all who fall and raise up all who are bowed down.                     ...

"Thus says the Lord,    Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth... No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there.....

Well, you wanted to see the whole thing - it's quite messy. I'd seen a Cath Kidston pillowcase where she'd applied circle...

"...the Lord is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph. ..they will be put to shame, to ev...

The Lenten season has given me an impetus to look at my unfinished projects and one of them is this circle/button quilt from - three years a...

and I guess I won't be using that fabric after all...

Two co-workers gave up meat for a month with much talk of bean burgers, and it all sounded so good! I must be behind the times for not havin...

I've never liked March. I have tried! I probably don't hate it as much as I used to. But unless it comes along milder than norm...

"In the presence of God, during a recollected reading of the text [Bible], it is good to ask, for example:   Lord, what does this text ...

Margaret, my apron buddy , surprised me with this sweet little crocheted bag. I'd sent her the handwarmers she won in the giveaway,...

There isn't much flat space here for laying sweaters to dry, so I use the ironing board. Somebody discovered it. My new Anth...

With this never-ending cold weather I figured I had time to squeeze in another winter skirt from a brown velveteen that needed to be used up...

Well, after almost two weeks, Cindy has definitely made herself part of the household. Today she spilled Dolly's water all over the tabl...

Emily has reminded me that today is the birthday anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach. I tend to think of him as "the old man...

"The English word  sin  is derived from the German term  Sunde , which carries the connotation of sundering or dividing. The Greek wor...