by Carole Duff | Sep 1, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Last week, I looked behind, viewing 8mm family films from the early-to-mid 60s when I was between the ages of ten and sixteen. I saw my parents, grandparents, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, many now empty chairs. The girl I was couldn’t see the woman she would...
by Carole Duff | Aug 25, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Opposite: adjective, noun, adverb, preposition. Let’s take a look at the noun in a play, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Actors: the opposite of people “We’re actors – we’re the opposite of people!” states The Player in Tom Stoppard’s...
by Carole Duff | Aug 18, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
1973 college graduation 2001, last Texas Christmas 2024, our calling With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed...
by Carole Duff | Aug 11, 2025 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Dirt, dog fur, bugs, and weeds accumulate regularly at our mountain house here in the Blue Ridge. That’s why I clean every day and weed daily in the spring, summer, and fall—weather permitting. But during the weeks of my recovery from surgery, I fell...
by Carole Duff | Aug 4, 2025 | Faith |
While the Five-Minute Friday site is down and in the process of restoration, this week I created my own one-word writing prompt: Restoration. Keith and I have had a consideration amount of restoration going on this summer—all opportunities to repair, return, bring...
