Searching for a Balance

I hadn't realized Oscar de la Renta passed away last week. This Google image exemplifies what I think of in connection with Osca...

With all the Cindy-related issues around here, I am appreciating Henry's placid temperament more than ever before.

I really have no liking for Halloween, but I can't resist these little ghosts Trisha gives to the story hour children every year. A...

God be in our thinking, always as a guide; God be in our yearning, high and deep and wide; God be in our caring, with us intertwined, ...

The youth group at church was selling (donated) pumpkins for a dollar. And the little ones for fifty cents!  Perfect for the small shelve...

When Valerie  pinned t his recipe  I knew I had to try it right away. A cake which contains rye flour! Couldn't resist it. I had canned ...

I don't know about you, but when a recipe tells me to peel a pumpkin or large squash, I say no way. I did try it once a long time ago - ...

"I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the g...

The maples this year have been incredibly colorful - I don't remember so many colors all on the same tree at one time, so showy even on ...

I got an idea that my black linen dress  was roomy enough for a jumper, so started looking for something of a thin fabric that I could wear ...

In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue He had three ships and left from Spain He sailed through sunshine, wi...

Today is Cindy's third birthday. Cenerentola is Italian for Cinderella. I know this because Rossini wrote an opera by that name, an...

the two well-behaved ones, I mean.

of tomatoes - plum and cherry.

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."                                                          - Wi...

Kierkegaard, a philosopher who loved Jesus very much, affirmed that God has created two categories of people: heroes and poets. The hero is ...

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?