Searching for a Balance

O Lord, you have created all! How did you come to be so small, To sweetly sleep in manger-bed Where lowing cattle lately fed? Wer...

There's a very popular Jewish deli in the next town and we went there on my birthday. I had their macaroni and cheese, which is really g...

  -  rainbow chard.

Why does the chilling winter's morn Smile like a field beset with corn; Or smell to a mead new shorn, Thus on the sudden? C...

"When I think of Christmas Eves, Christmas feasts, Christmas songs, and Christmas stories, I know that they do not represent a short an...

Cindy's new people have been emailing my brother with updates, and the latest is this: my photo "You'd think she had...

I baked cookies today, but it's not enough.  I've got to make more. There are worse things than the aroma of chicken soup, ...

which lasted about two minutes.  But it really was the perfect shade of red.

Hark the glad sound! The Savior comes, the Savior promised long: let every heart prepare a throne, and every voice a song. ...

Yesterday I baked cookies for the library cookie sale. I haven't used cookie cutters for I don't know how long - it was fun, a...

There was a string of lights hanging around with nowhere to go, so I taped it to the center of the window over the kitchen sink.  The...

ususally manage to warm the heart - from Susan , who hasn't been blogging for a while This charming communication may as well h...

Cindy went to her new home today. After nine and a half months, it's a relief to have some normalcy, but... I do miss her. She was cu...

I'm joining up with Heather's St. Lucia Day blog procession  just a day late. Thursday I made Lucia buns and today I iced a f...

"Christ's coming is good news to those who are aware of their emptiness and need. For them it is a cause for rejoicing. It spells l...

What is it about a dried hydrangea?  I had one bloom in a white vase in the kitchen and wanted to fit in some Christmas things. I was going ...

I made Lucia buns today among other things.

"What a wearisome struggle it is to maintain our imagined autonomy! When we choose Christ instead of the endless demands of our own sma...

Someone gave the library a ceramic Christmas village, and I had to photograph it. There's a barn and some houses:  a farmhouse ...

We have many plants at the library, and it's one of my jobs to water them. Thinking lately that I could do a little more by them, I star...

"Those who look for for the fulfillment of God's promises out of a sense that they are entitled to them because of their intellige...

I've long wished that Leila would be more forthcoming with her knowledge of bread-making.  And then my moment arrived on Friday - she ...

"Advent is a season of joyful preparation for the coming of Christ, but the joy lies in knowing that God will clear away all the obstac...

no, it isn't dirty - it's some kind of spatterware This thing has been hanging out in the kitchen for many years. It's mad...

After snowing all day Wednesday, with much cooking going on in between, it decided to snow again at the end of the day.

For the love of God, for faith, family, and friends, We thank you, O Lord. For joys, successes, achievements, and accomplishments,  We tha...

Nothing like snow in New England to push you into a festive mood; tomorrow is Thanksgiving and the snow arrived while I was at work. We r...

This picture was taken through a window, hence the glare.  But it's a photo of a new garden, or what I hope will end up being a new g...