Searching for a Balance

Rise, O glorious orb of day, Draw the curtains from the sky; Let your light in glad array, All creation beautify; Bid the fears of ...

Spring has gone away, and it's winter again now. But not before we had two more days of warmer, and yes - even balmy! - weather. I had...

They did say it would be in the sixties today, but it wasn't just a lovely, warm day - it was truly spring-like. I sat outside and kit...

I like my flannel nightgowns, and I got a funny tear on one of them. In front of the underarm, near the seams. A funny place, and the rest o...

I actually had windows open today - and it's still fifty, even now! We'll be able to enjoy this warm-up for a few days. Yesterd...

I'm definitely the tortoise rather than the hare with most projects not to mention that I do have other things to do at the library...

If it were any other cat, you would be right in wondering why I would post this at all. But Henry isn't one hundred percent cat, and so ...

It began to snow yesterday while we were at Mass and continued all day, like this - and we were nice and cozy inside, like this -

Friends had given us a Cinnamon Quickbread mix for Christmas, with a cute baking pan attached. I was surprised to find a list of ingredients...

There was a robin in the front tree two days ago. One always thinks of spring when they show up, but it's only early February, and ...

I haven't have much success with bulbs indoors before, but I'm trying again. These are in an unattractive gray container, so I ...

(I like the blue cast)

About three weeks ago I saw a box of yarn in Trisha's office, and realized we had to do something to use it up. She gets many donations ...

Debra got me one of those nice canvas bins, and since it's gray, I thought of the bathroom first. It's serving as my new iron...

I say sashiko style - I am totally unable to make stitches in neat rows. But I like the idea of covering the whole area with stitchin...

God our Creator,  we give thanks to you, who alone have the power to impart the breath of life as you form each of us in our mother...

I made Margo's Midwinter Buns  again and brought some to work Friday. I make buns of this sort rarely, but it isn't because they...

We had a Christmas snow at Epiphany - at last. It disappeared when the temperatures got up to sixty on Thursday; I actually brought tra...

I put away the Three Kings today. I hope Henry won't miss them too much. The Holy Family is still there, which should be enough for...

My Master was so very poor, a manger was his cradling place; so very rich my Master was kings came from far to gain his grace. My...

"...the spirit of Christmas is a paradox precisely because its largeness is made manifest in the smallest of ways: in little kindne...

I had just said to my brother two weeks ago, "Can it be your clients all know that you're not eating so many sugary things?"  ...

O rich the gifts you bring to us, yourself made poor and weak;  O love beyond compare that thus can foes and sinners seek! For this...

A man came in the library today wearing a Santa hat. It was red, but he was not Santa. I keep getting asked if I'm ready for Chris...

Hope, O you broken hearts, at last! The King comes on in might, He loved us in the ages past When we sat wrapped in night; Now are ...

"Thus says the Lord; observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come. .. " -   from Isaiah 56 ...

Santa came in the library today. It was Santa Claus himself - he couldn't have been anyone else; a full, snowy beard, and a Santa hat. E...

the tree, I mean.

I said it was supposed to snow last week, but the snow didn't appear. Last night, however, it did! And it covered the ground, and w...