Searching for a Balance

 The first reading at Mass today: When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one's faults when one speaks. As the test of what the ...

 All right, it took a while but we got Dolly's DNA results back. She has a less exciting, shall we say, bloodline than Annie, but they b...

 It was sixty-five degrees on Wednesday; today we have snow, and it was intense enough and icy enough this morning to close Town offices, an...

 My brother came home for lunch, and I heard him say, You'll never guess what I brought home.  I think these are paczki; they always se...

 I'm halfway through The Joy of the Snow, but no mention of her favorite author, yet.  "...nearly everyone did go to church and Sun...

 I've been planning the menus for the entire month, and even though it takes a while, I find it very freeing. It came during a podcast, ...

 We had two days of blissful fifty-something, and now it's going back to cold. It could have been late March. The weatherman was predict...

I almost had spring fever today. Outside, it looked like March - mud here and there, the grass that blah not-green color, everything ugly. I...

 "The inn is the Church, which receives travelers who are tired with their journey through the world and oppressed with the load of the...

  There is ice on the clothesline, and the thermometer outside my window is stuck on 34 degrees because ice got inside it. It would be nice ...

 Today we remembered the Lord's presentation in the temple.  The bright lights of Christmas are shining with joy From the heart of the c...

 When I left work this afternoon, I heard a wren trilling. I wonder how the little birds will fare tomorrow, in the big snowstorm that's...

 I like to make my yogurt in the evenings, and I intended to last night but at the end of the day I didn't want to do one more thing, so...

 I like to observe holidays; they exist for a reason. It may amount to a cloth on the table, some dessert, a day of less housework. Sunday i...

 When I came up the basement stairs into the kitchen I could see out the window to the bird feeder; there were three dark gray juncos and a ...

 It's the feast of St. Anthony, the hermit . Why didn't I think to make hermits ? But it's getting late, the butter is in the fr...

 When Orphan Annie finally had her check-up, she was found to weigh eleven and a half pounds. Ahem. This would be our fault, of course. Dr. ...

 I returned Yeats to the library; now I have Wordsworth.  This evening I hankered for a hot cocoa, so I had one, but I wonder if the caffein...

 "There is something at once magnificent and terrible about moonlight on the snow during these cold, white January nights.   If one is ...

 I think I happened upon an answer to my question from yesterday: "Why do people always get so still when they watch the snow, murmured...

 We knew it would snow overnight, only two to five inches, and over a fifteen-hour period.  early morning But it came faster, and heavier, a...

  What I'm reading at present. Jane Eyre is more fantastic than I remembered. Highly Irregular was a Christmas present - it's about ...

 Well, it's a new year, and there's a new reading challenge I'm embarking on. The very first thing is to read eleven poems by a ...

 "Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyme...

 I've been wanting to put the little Christmas tree on the table during dinner some time - that was easy enough, since it sits right nex...

A Happy New Year to everyone!   Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.                                        ...

 I have a book called A Literary Christmas which I've been going through here and there. A Washington Irving excerpt caught my fancy and...

 Christmas has been so nice and quiet, which is what's usually needed after all the hubbub that always comes before. But we did have som...

 And there was snow, this morning, Christmas Eve day. And yesterday I scrubbed the kitchen floor. What more could I want? Earth, strike up y...

 "The liturgy of Advent... is not just about commemorating the historical event which occurred some two thousand years ago in a little ...

 I can't believe I attached a favorite bird ornament on the tree with her watching. When I went in to unplug the tree, there were white ...