The thing about writing is we must be fully engaged with life in order to write. Maybe that isn’t so if you are a fiction writer with a wild, creative imagination; however, for me? I can take a walk and get writing material. So it was a week or so ago when I went to… [Read More]
Five Minute Friday: Drive
Kate said drive. One of those tricky words. Could be verb, or some type of noun. I am no English scholar but I do know words and value them. What shall it be? Drive I have a strong one. My personal drive has changed over the course of my life. to get married and be… [Read More]
I Have Been Young and Now I Am Old
On Getting Old I was standing at the double sink of our 1950’s farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountain Range of the Appalachian Mountains. My gaze set on the eight blueberry bushes and the long row of heirloom white grapes – elbow deep in dish soap bubbles and my 17-year old son, my “baby,” came… [Read More]
Five Minute Friday: Order
Kate said order. I like order. I loathe chaos. When I sense there is no order to something I’m involved in or that is happening around me – I tend to recluse and quiet the chaos. A lot of people take that as rude or unsocial – but for me, it is the best way… [Read More]
Are You Falling Apart?
Are you falling apart? And He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. Colossians 1.17 …who [Jesus Christ] being the brightness of His glory [God’s] and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power…Hebrews 1.3 …and you are complete in Him [Jesus Christ],… [Read More]
Five Minute Friday: Strong
Kate said strong. My first-born son was asked in an 11th Grade class, “Who is the strongest person you’ve ever met?” His answer was simply two words, “My mom.” I was floored when he told me that. Floored, and flattered! My first two kids went through the hard with me. The separation and the divorce…. [Read More]
Are You Sliding?
Beware! Rock Slide Area With as many road trips we have under our belts we have only witnessed dangerous rock slides a few times. The problem is, one never knows when the first rock will begin to slip. What creates the compromise? It could be something so simple as a squirrel burrowing between two small… [Read More]
Five Minute Friday: Summer
Kate said Summer. Summer. The stuff childhood is made for. I began loving summer when we moved from hot, humid south Florida to our 14 acre mini farm in the mountains of NC in 1988. We moved on Labor Day weekend, which technically is the final weekend of summer but that year we had an… [Read More]