My world has always revolved around the academic calendar. I calculate every day and date around the start and finish of my semesters. I know what day of the week it is based on my MW or TR Thursday schedule. For the past several summers, I have taught summer school so my reference points have remained in tact all year long. This summer, however, I am not teaching and I realize that half the time I have no clue what…
In the eleven years or so that I have been blogging, I have written this same post countless times…the one about having gone missing for months and now being back. They always come with a promise to do better. And countless times I have failed, but I keep coming back and trying again. Before writing this tonight, I have given some serious thought to why I keep falling short with regular posts lately. It is easy to blame a busy…
This is the daily devotion that I wrote and was published as part of our church’s daily devotion ministry. Don’t ask me how I know so much about toothaches and sin. 🙂 ______________ A gift from Kris Baker, Order of St. Francis and St. Clare at #cohdallas, a United Church of Christ congregation, today’s devotional is based on the following scripture : ScriptureLust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer….
I ordered a new pot last week…a four quart dutch oven. I’m not sure why I ordered a new dutch oven other than it was on sale and it is a pretty blue. I don’t have a dutch oven and I make a lot of meals that could be prepared in a dutch oven, but I do have lots of sauce pans and stew pots that have served me quite well up until now, so I could have easily done…
A friend recently texted to ask if I was OK because I haven’t posted here in the last week. I am as OK as anyone is who is sad and angry about what is happening in this country right now. I have not written because all I had to write about were things that I didn’t want to write about. Lol! More words about discrimination, families being torn apart, innocent people being treated like criminals, power and money prevailing over…
I am kind of in a creative slump right now, but I keep on keeping on, trying to work myself out of it. One thing that always helps is seeing this sweet little face…even when this face is up in my face at 3am because it needs to go outside. No matter what she does, it is impossible to get upset with Piper because she is such a happy and lovable little girl. Today’s Capture Your 365 prompt was open. You…
There is so much going on in this world right now that is not pretty that for the last few days, I have tried to stay away from the media, searching elsewhere for alternate truths. 🙂 It hasn’t been easy, but even in the midst of winter, the natural world is still full of beauty; it and my camera provided just the diversion that I needed! Seeing the movie Lion on Friday evening and the musical 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling…
Week one of the Spring 2017 semester is over. Let me just say that re-entry was tough! Though I never really slept late over the holiday break, I was not up any day at 5:30 like I have been every day this week. This adjustment to my morning alarm would have been much more tolerable if I had made a similar adjustment to my bedtime, if it also had moved three hours earlier. I missed that step. The result? Three…
I made healthy food choices today, which my body greatly appreciated, but it is not at all happy with the “sleep diet” that has been imposed now that I am back in school. Though my mind would like to tackle a few things on my need/want to-do list tonight, the body said, “NOOOOO!!!!” For once, I am paying attention. No mind over matter. Goodnight!
I am double dipping today… It is Tuesday In Texas post day on Sifted Together, the blog I co-write with my friend Tracey. We started blogging together two years ago and have just recently reworked and renamed that venture. We just launched Sifted Together on January 9th so you’ve only missed a few posts. To see what’s going on in my world today, as well as what was going on Monday In Michigan from Tracey’s perspective, hop on over to www.siftedtogether.com. …