A few days ago, I went to Holmes County, Ohio with my younger girls. We had a fun girls trip with lots of thrift stores and fabric shops.  B...

  In the fall of 2009, I was asked to give a short talk on Proverbs 31 at a lunch to honor the older ladies at our church.  At the time I wa...

1. Choose a busy time of year.  (Maybe August?) 2. Ignore your work and take some time to rest and worship.  (Ideally for more than a day, b...

Every August, there comes a week when I do a slow spin in my kitchen, fighting back panic, because I don't know what to do first. Garden...

  This was first published last year in the Hometown edition of Commonplace published by Daughters of Promise. On a recent Sunday afternoo...

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May: Brain Cancer Awareness Month Eight years ago: May 2017 Diagnosis: Ed has headaches. (But he has always had migraines; surely the...