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Our Boxed Lunch Book Club meets tomorrow from 12-1. This month we are discussing Carol Shields novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), which is about a biographer named Judith who collects details about people and events. Interestingly, in the novel, Judith is writing a biography about Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie and in the same year that this …
Community Garden: Planting in the Dirt with Friends Yesterday we put a vegetable garden into our backyard with lots of dear friends. Each family has made a past effort to have a vegetable garden with varying degrees of success, so this year we decided to put all our efforts together. The whole project has already …
Granola We make two kinds of granola at our house. The first one is a recipe I have used since my early married days in Chicago and the second one is a more recent discovery. Both are delicious and make great gifts in mason jars for your friends who needs an easy breakfast! I also …
Anticipating Easter: Waiting for the Silence to Break On this night before Easter, I wonder… how did those friends long ago those who called Jesus friend, brother, son– How did they wait for Easter morning? Each year I find myself anticipating Easter morning, even though I know what is coming. I know the story. But …
Today is Good Friday. I had some plans that worked and some that didn’t quite pan out. I tried to pull away enough today to remember. And I had some plans to help the kids to remember. I fought through conflicting interests to pull our evening together. There were compromises. We broke homemade bread together. …
Most Loved in All the World: A Sweet Children’s Book Oh mama, I think this is the sweetest book in the whole world. That’s what Mary Polly said after she read Most Loved in All the World by Tonya Cherie Hegamin. I brought it home from the library last week, and after she read it, …
Several different bunches of spring greens have found their way into my kitchen in the past week or so and I have now twice made this very simple dinner that with a slice of cornbread will fill your tummy for very little money. Especially if your greens are from a friend’s garden. We got Swiss …
If you’ve been with me for a while you know that once upon a time, I had a very bad day and I bought a pot for my front doorstep. And if you know my house, if you grace us with your presence, you also know that apart from this pot and a flower bed …
The last two days finally slowed down enough for me to recover a little from spring break. I’ve been catching up on my reading. In between laundry loads. I picked this book up at the library when I went in search of the documentary by the same name. Anna told me I needed to watch …
Here’s the book discussion guide I used for our boxed lunch book club back in February The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. 1. Love at first sight. Here’s a quote from Chapter 2 (p.13) right after Shinji has seen Hatsue for the first time. Shinji always went to …
Simon Sings His BSF Songs Today is Wednesday, so Simon and I should be together at Bible Study Fellowship. But instead I am in Colorado and he is in Arkansas and BSF is off for the week because it’s spring break. In honor of not going to BSF, here is Simon singing his two favorite …
Chocolate Pecan Cookies made with Dark Chocolate and Whole Wheat Flour Chocolate Pecan Cookies are not your after school snack cookie. This cookie is for book club, for your valentine, for your late night trip to the cookie jar. In other words, this cookie is for adults. Or mature children, mature being defined here as …
For our New Community dinner this month, I signed up to bring a soup and salad. I landed on my newest creation, sweet potato coconut soup. And then I also brought these snowball cookies. They are a family recipe that we make every year at Christmas. There are several variations around this cookie that is …
Book Discussion Guide For Wisdom In The Waiting by Phyllis Tickle Tomorrow is our Boxed Lunch Book Club at church, and I have been working on quotes and questions for our time together. I am looking forward to chatting over lunch about the spring stories in Phyllis Tickle’s Wisdom in the Waiting. Here’s the discussion guide. …
I love to get outside in the spring. In fact, I always feel a little sad about leaving Arkansas for spring break because the weather is turning so lovely and the wisteria usually comes out while I am gone. Frequently in the spring and fall, we go for family …
An Easy Recipe for Raspberry Rugelach That You Can Freeze For Later Raspberry Rugelach Ingredients: 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, room temperature 1/4 cup granulated sugar 2 cups sifted bleached all-purpose flour 1/2 cup raspberry or apricot preserves Make dough: place cream …
Last summer I wrote about reading this lovely book that is the introduction to a new series of books on ancient faith practices. Then I read the first book of the series, In Constant Prayer by Robert Benson. That was when I ordered The Divine Hours. Then I sort of forgot about the series. But …
Breath of Joy: A Series of Yoga Poses I guess that I could go to yoga for the rest of my life and still, years from now, be learning new poses. I am always amazed that there is something new with each class. A position I haven’t heard of before. Or a new way to …
I’m home from church with a sick little girl, so I’m rereading Mary Karr’s collection of poems, Sinners Welcome, in lieu of corporate worship this morning. Not the same, I know, but there is no avoiding sickness in this town right now. Class attendance is down everywhere due to multiple strains of the flu and other …
Taido and I had this wonderful coconut sweet potato soup in a restaurant on a date recently that we loved. It was so dreamy that we sat at the table a long time and tried to figure out everything that was in it. We made a list so later I could try to duplicate it. …