Searching for a Balance

She sleeps with me every night; she was just on my lap as I was typing. Last night my brother referred to her as "the barnac...

I've discovered how delicious a garden tomato salad can be with a bit of crumbled blue cheese and vinaigrette.

I've been reading a new and very, very interesting book, The Inner Life of Cats , by Thomas McNamee. One chapter treats the feral cat is...

Surprise flowers, that is, growing outside the kitchen window at work.

If there's an occasion which has some relation to my life, my beliefs, my interests, I want to observe it. Life's too short to ignor...

Dolly and I are taking every opportunity for snatching alfresco hours. I finally got this quilt bound. After four years. It's a fi...

I just can't throw the avocado pits away - they look like burnished wood. I'll keep them for a while.

"It would be utopian to imagine that the present-day world could go into reverse and completely reorganize itself.   We have...com...

Anna's blog has been such an inspiration to me over the years, and when Debra needed help planning the decoration for her reception , s...

"You see, here our philosophy is that everything important happens in the morning."                                             ...

Debra's son was married a few hundred miles away this spring. Saturday was the reception here for those who couldn't attend the wedd...

Our apples are quite small, but getting some red on them. The other day I picked one, then braced myself to cut it open. They're alway...

Several mason jars of wildflowers for the kitchen. A perk for helping Debra plan and set up a reception for her son and his bride. 

"In every department of life, physical or spiritual,... there must be a stretching forth of the withered arm before it receives strengt...

I've been reading Grimm's fairy tales lately  -  the complete Grimm's. Why has it taken me twelve years of living with Dolly t...

Well, it's been two months and I haven't seen a hummingbird .  And this plant shouldn't really be in a hanger, because it doesn...

Outside with Dolly the other day I suddenly realized the apple tree is loaded; I went over to it with some trepidation because, once more,...

The saints from long ago had such a blunt and to-the-point way of praying and speaking. I am "borrowing"  this from the monks : ...

We've been having very regular rainfalls this summer, and we're more than five inches above the average, according to the weatherman...

I've been very slowly reading some of Charlotte Mason's work - she is revered by many homeschoolers and I find much about human natu...

I couldn't sleep the other night, and somehow got to thinking about what's in my bookcase. I've weeded, but the desire to pare d...

"...why are trees such social beings? Why do they share food with their own species and sometimes even go so far as to nourish their co...

Well, I think it is. Dolly in the picture window.  It's close to a year since our Dolly has sat there in peace. Dolly in a cha...

"But monastic fidelity to the liturgy is the antithesis of narcissism. ...somewhere, as I write this, as you read it, people are singin...

"...Often it's hard for monks to understand that people coming in from the noise of the world are so impressed by the relative quie...

It was in an issue of Food Network magazine, I believe. Somebody mentioned "Heirloom Tomato, Corn and Basil Salad", and I made a...

It all began with Rhonda's weekly links of interest . This Mary Berry thing caught my eye. I never heard of this lady, obviously well k...

For millions still in darkness within this land of light, for those who've wandered blindly from God and home and right and tho...

I didn't check to see if it was unplugged. Today I started a batch of fermented cranberry soda. I don't care for sugary soda (w...

"At its Latin root, the word religion is linked to the words ligature and ligament, words having both negative and positive connotation...