Searching for a Balance

As much as I enjoy looking at the new picture books when they come into the library, it often seems they are written to show off the clevern...

"I thought you'd come today. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some peop...

An eggplant stem? or a leprechaun's cap?

In an unfamiliar supermarket the other day, and this was on clearance. I didn't know you could even buy sprouted wheat flour! Thought...

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said", counseled Andre Gide , "but since no one was listening, everything ...

Could it be that our Dolly is secretly a little homebody? Or is it just the color scheme?

It's a thing, I guess. On Facebook, so I didn't know about it, since I'm not there. But people are taking smooth rocks and paint...

At the beginning of summer, my brother was given a vegetable plant. He put the medium-sized pot in the garden near the house amongst the oth...

"...Anne went herself to the east gable and sat down by her window in the darkness alone with her tears and her heaviness of heart. How...

We're picking the apples now; they are quite small, but clear. The first batch of applesauce was bland - how strange! These apples made ...

Father, hear the prayer we offer: Not for ease that prayer shall be, But for strength that we may ever Live our lives courageously. ...

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...