Searching for a Balance

After high humidity, today was to be looked forward to. Thunderstorms were predicted for late morning, but it was so sunny when we set off f...

Megan Cox Gurdon tells a story of a man in 1865 named Saturnino Martinez who published a newspaper expressly for cigar factory workers; it w...

I've posted before about cats on flip-flops. If they're going to lay on the floor and there are flip flops in sight, they will lay o...

This blog is getting to be very boring with no pictures and me just talking all the time, BUT Chapter 2 of The Enchanted Hour talks about...

"Christians are indistinguishable from other men either by nationality, language or customs. They do not inhabit separate cities of the...

I'm so bad at taking pictures lately - I just don't think of it!  But yesterday when we sat down to dinner I realized it was an all-...

Phyllis McGinley wrote on many subjects, including commentary on some religious figures. This poem is about St. Bridget of Ireland. The ...

One of the books I'm reading is  The Enchanted Hour , by Meghan Cox Gurdon; the subtitle -  The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the...

I received my used copy of Phyllis McGinley's poems. The woman wrote on every subject, and with such cleverness! My Six Toothbrushes ...

Dolly is now happily listening to a Dave Brubeck recording; I thought she deserved it. Sweetie has been listening to the ball game in anothe...

I was playing "The Kids are Alright" - I made sure it wasn't loud - I'm not sure she cared for it. I read Roger Daltr...

Lately, Dolly's been wanting to go into the lower cupboards; she went onto a shelf where a few bottles of wine are kept, which remind...

"Each saint in heaven rejoices over the glorification of the other... To use an example: See, we are standing together, and I have a ro...

I have talked about this before - in fact, I just looked it up in my blog archives and found it on another June twelfth! -  how sweet the ...

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."                             ...

I heard a poem in a podcast but it doesn't seem to be anywhere online - nowhere. I took a chance and ordered a collection of the poet...

Two weeks had gone by since Diane came to tell me about Mr. Kibble's blindness, and I just never saw a time when she was home, I was fre...

To be a giant and keep quiet about it, To stay in one's own place; To stand for the constant presence of process And always to se...

With so little value in much of social media, the opportunity to see how it is in so many parts of the world is a positive. Yesterday a vide...

I put a pot of water on to boil the other day and went to the basement quick to get some pantry items. I came upstairs in time to hear a pop...

My co-worker told me there was a terrific plant nursery about a mile from my house - I had no idea the place was there. I wanted a re...

Reader, I ate most of it.

This day the Lord has made his own, Who broke from his confining grave. His living presence fills the world That by his Cross he came...

I sing as I arise today! I call on my Creator's might: The will of God to be my guide, The eye of God to be my sight. The wor...

I finally got over to Diane's last Monday to see Mr. Kibble. We were petting him, Diane was kissing him, and he was cool with it all, th...

I had polished these shoes last week, or maybe before that. They were nice and shiny and I put them away. Because it's May, after all...

"The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life , or better to endure it ."                              ...

"It's the balance that counts all through life. It's the balance that matters in human relationships. It's the balance that...

Orioles come every summer, and I consider myself lucky to catch a quick glimpse of one whizzing by or high over head, but it's been seve...

Monday I made macaroni and cheese. That was the plan, anyway. I made the roux, then the sauce. I had only one bar of cheddar but almost eigh...

"It's now two weeks after Easter Sunday, and I suspect we've all returned to the routine of our lives. But according to this mo...