Searching for a Balance

We sang this today at Mass: As the deer longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for You, O God. My soul does thirst for the livin...

I think I've mentioned before that we have a cat shelter on the side of the house. My brother built it years ago for stray cats. There i...

The bag of beans was so big, I just stuffed a few into a jar with some salted water.

We sang this today at Mass - The Lord is my light, my help, my salvation. Why should I fear? With God, I fear no one. God prote...

 on the same chair! Symphony No. 3 (the Eroica). The Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim conducting.

Even though it's only mid February and temperatures have only been in the thirties it suddenly seems like spring is around the co...

"The desert is the place where we feel our smallness; where, stripped of all that normally buoys us up, we feel how lonely, helpless, f...

In summer I put kitchen scraps in the composter, but in winter I was lamenting that they are wasted, until I realized I could make vegetable...

"'Every tear brings the messiah closer!' This was a refrain in Jewish apocalyptic literature and expressed the belief that a ce...

"The name, Cinderella, itself already says most of it. Literally it means 'the young girl who sits in the cinders'. Moreover, a...

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."                                                      ...

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how..."                                                        ...

Today during Mass, all the married couples were invited to go into the center aisle and renew their vows of commitment to each other. It was...

I'm joining Rosie and Leila today - The snowstorm passed through yesterday and when the sun emerged - beautiful. For a while, th...

Yesterday morning the weather man said the storm which was going to miss us, all of a sudden wasn't going to; it was wanting to swerve b...

This was yesterday - I got so warm in the kitchen I had to dig out my sandals. I had windows open! today was warmer!

Years ago, I scorned the feather duster as laziness, not to mention that you're just knocking down the dust, to have it mess up the flo...

I bought this denim jumper on ebay very cheaply. But it was way too long. With so much embroidery, I found a space where I could cut acros...

Well, I cannot begin to tell you how well received this cake was today. Debi wanted the recipe. She also had the great idea that we shoul...

In addition to multitudinous amounts of baked goods my brother receives for Christmas from his clients, is the occasional bottle of wine. I ...

We were fortunate - we got the pretty snowfall, but with just three or maybe four inches. It was very gusty at times; the mail carrier...

Dolly has a great many balls to play with, and her current favorite is a bright green one like a tennis ball but with something inside that ...

In the middle of the journey of How Dante Can Save Your Life , I came to myself in a back hallway at the library where  The Divine Comedy  h...

I made this after work today, and then I pinned it into my "favorite recipes" board. Not so much because I love it - it was defini...

We keep having little snowfalls which melt quickly. Saturday I was all excited at the snow in the morning. Very promising, ...

For the past three years I think, there's been an ornate display near the altar at church, so I took some photos. I'm not sure where...