Searching for a Balance

I was going to do a post about how I dislike these . I made them yesterday - couldn't get the butter to brown (haven't done it...

I have done what is mine to do; may Christ teach you what is yours to do.

I finally made Anna's brownie recipe that she posted eight years ago.  I was especially intrigued at a recipe that called for only one c...

"Henri Nouwen was fascinated by trapeze artists. He befriended a troupe of trapezists called the Flying Rodleighs. Once he asked the ch...

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more commonplace than unsuccessful men with tal...

I have a collection of bean burger recipes on Pinterest, and this is the second I've made . These were really good.  I had all ...

Gail was in the library the other day. She used to work with us - now she's retired. She looked nice, she always makes that effort. An...

Have you ever had trouble getting the shrink wrap off the long, hothouse cucumbers from the supermarket? I usually cut one end off and t...

I can't believe I'm just finishing up with the winter scarf and glove washing, just in time (almost) for the cold weather again! ...

I don't remember where my mother got this - but, isn't it perfect?

"here is that which will give language to you, cat..." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life i...

I think I first discovered Une Gamine dans la Cuisine  - a blog - through Pinterest. Oh, the photos!  The food in those pictures was irresis...

I've been reading something called  Servants, Misfits, and Martyrs , by James Howell, a Methodist minister. His style is easy and pleasa...

I think I first read about the idea on Amy Karol's blog, Angry Chicken ; she had a typed-up shopping list which she printed out every we...

Cindy's work, that is - causing chaos and disruption where'er her little feet go.   surveying the wreckage I exaggerate, ...

A praying mantis hung around for a bit outside the kitchen window - he wasn't bothered by Cindy, who was only briefly interested, ...

"No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world."                                          ...

Today I finished painting a very useful but previously unappealing cabinet in the kitchen. The stain was something which didn't match a...

"Human beings are born; they grow up; they have their joys and sorrows and their fortunes. They strive and struggle and develop, and al...

I bought a J. Jill dress which had a lower V neckline than I wanted, but lo, there in my stash was a piece of black linen almost exactly lik...

Theirs , of course, looks prettier than mine did. But it was really good and it's almost gone. And so easy to make! I used whol...

this (and then my brother said, You've been playing that cd all summer!   Well, yes - the cats and I aren't tired of it. ...

"Women are artists of the everyday... the woman who works with her hands only is a laborer; the woman who works with her hands and her ...

I never want to knit in July or August - I don't enjoy touching yarn with my sweaty hands. But this year August is hardly recognizable!...

I saw this vase at Salvation Army at least twenty years ago; it's graceful shape caught my eye. The glass is very thick, though, and it...

Oh, how lovely everything was! Gossamer clouds of pale gold floated over the Hill of the Mist. The wind had fallen asleep among the silver b...

In an August which has been amazingly comfortable, we've come back to hot and humid summer for a few days.  And Eileen and Nancy ...

To continue our thought from this morning , surely these vintage webbed chairs have secrets. Don't they look like they're jus...

"Pat had a firm belief that if you could only open the door of any shut room quickly enough you could catch all the furniture in strang...

Thankful that the vet came up with a medication which seems to agree with our Dolly. Her swollen paw is all better and her allergies may ...

The window over the kitchen sink, because I didn't get around to planting them outside. Yet. I still may.