“S is for Strawberry” I waited way to late in the day for this one – after choir rehearsal and a few beers at a local night spot with choir members as we celebrated our last rehearsal before leaving on Monday for our two week tour in England.
I am out of town and posting from my iPad so things will look weird here for a few days. “Food With Friends”
“Hunting For Food” The only hunting going on around here is hunting for recipes for the weekend’s meals. I want to try making Scotch Eggs.
If you are a regular visitor here, you know that I often walk to and from school. To me, living close enough to do this is such a blessing. Maybe I feel this way because of the fact that I can’t drive. If I can walk, I’m not dependent on or burdensome to others. Or maybe it is simply because I like to walk. Yes, there are days when it is cold or hot or I am tired. Yes, I…
This afternoon I received the following text message from my youngest child. At nineteen, this is her first time to cast a vote in any election. I sure hope I raised her right!
“Really?”
For reason I will explain in my next post, I found myself yesterday afternoon at the same mall where I spent last Saturday afternoon. What are the chances? I have lived in Dallas for twenty-seven years. In the past eight days, I have doubled the number of times I have set foot in this particular mall. I was glad to see that with only a week until Christmas, Santa is beginning to get serious about his job. He is no…
Yesterday I said that when travelling it is important to have a sense of the place you are to visit before arriving. With regard to the practical, this is true, but after thinking about my statement, I believe that it needs a few caveats. I have been reading the writings of St. Francis himself as well as the words that others have written about him for nearly vtwenty years. I have seen many images of this saint in icons, book…
There is no question that we live in an automatic, electronic, remote controlled world. We have lights that turn on when you clap (or the dog barks, or the cat knocks something off the kitchen counter, or it thunders and the power has not yet gone off), electric toothbrushes because we wouldn’t want to burn an extra calories by actually having to move our arms back and worth, and then there is the sacred remote control. At my house a…