Searching for a Balance

I always admired my parents' bureau set from the 1940's, with its blond mahogany veneer and ice blue futuristic-looking drawer pulls...

We had a surprise visitor yesterday morning after coming home from church. A black cat was crouched on the back step, with head turned outwa...

I use one of the end tables for a nativity, and I end up putting our cd player on a small chair on the other side of the room. Dolly likes t...

Well, the pretty snow has flown and so have the frigid temperatures; today was in the fifties with pouring, pouring rain all the day long...

I cannot pass by our cat shelter without gratitude that Mr. Kibble is safe indoors and not struggling through the ice, snow and freezing col...

and outdid himself, I think. I hope the neighbors are enjoying at least half as many scrolls as we are!

We saw a wren at my little orange feeder! I checked it afterward to make sure it hasn't covered up again with ice. Now we know they foun...

I don't know where I've been for the past week - distracted, anyway. But we are having snow, finally. Snow actually on the gro...

I bought three of these cookie tins at the supermarket for twenty five cents apiece! Those ninety percent-off  sales are great. t...

I was just dropping off to sleep, and later than I wanted to, when Sweetie began tearing up and down the hallway, into the living room, back...

I realized somewhere along the Christmas way that I have a thing for tree decorations. Not decorations for trees, but tree-shaped ones. ...

yes.

O God, whose only begotten Son  has appeared in our very flesh,  grant, we pray, that we may be inwardly transformed through him wh...

November was unusually cold, and made us wonder what the winter had in store. It hasn't been steadily cold, though, since then, with tem...

Today is the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. " God our Father, you gave your Child to make us your children. Raise us to full ...

I just read in British Country Living magazine that the birds will eat your leftover mince pies (we don't have any of that), cheddar che...

I did make that resolution to chronicle all the treats my brother gets over Christmas. Had to abandon it - he was coming home late, laden wi...

"One doesn't ultimately ground hope on whether the world situation seems to be improving or worsening. It doesn't go up and dow...

Thursday was sunny and beautiful, so I slipped out to find a few berries for the wreath. There were some red ones in the azalea - they ...

The shepherdes were compassed right About them was a great light: "Dread ye nought", said the angel bright, Salvado...

We're having a Christmas snow;  it won't amount to much, except for the gladness on my part that we're having snow at all.  ...

I couldn't make up my mind for a while - did I like this combination, or not?  I decided that I do, and now most of the wrapping is d...

So far, my brother has received some peanut brittle, two square tins of cookies, just the top layer plus a mini fruitcake a...

"Prayer must become a way for ourselves on which gradually we learn to see more. It must not end in us shutting ourselves off in our eg...

"For most people, God is non-existent, because they know of him only words empty of meaning and alluding to a master, a pharaoh, to a l...

I got a really cute Christmas card from the people who took Cindy  four years ago. It's a pop-up - a white kitty with a row of prese...

He shall come down like showers Upon the fruitful earth; And joy, and hope, like flowers, Spring in his path to birth. Before him, ...

I went to Boston the other day with a friend. At the Museum of Fine Art we saw many wonderful things, and one strange thing. An old Last Sup...

Two years ago I happened upon this video  showing how to make a wreath; I bought a large frame and green wire just like she uses there. but ...

At certain times of the day, certain times of the year, we hear the tap-tapping of a woodpecker on our house - outside my bedroom, and on th...

Well, this morning when my brother returned from his walk, he saw Mr. Kibble in his hutch! So he came along during the night, apparently. No...