by Carole Duff | Jul 29, 2013 | Nature |
You’re taking a shower in your townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia. It is a few years ago, but the memory remains vivid. With your freshly clean wet hair wrapped in a towel, you open the bathroom door and behold a dark brown bat with eight-inch wingspan heading your...
by Carole Duff | Jul 22, 2013 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Yesterday morning, Keith and I attended a service at Bethany Lutheran Church in Waynesboro. Pastor Tim Bohlmann was out of town at a conference, so his father Gordon, a retired Lutheran minister, gave the sermon, a message about perfection, or rather, the...
by Carole Duff | Jul 17, 2013 | Family |
On Monday, July 15, 2013, we travelled to Arlington National Cemetery to say a final goodbye to Keith’s Dad, Edward W. Kenny, Jr., Col., US Air Force Retired. Family and friends gathered at the Administration Building where the Cemetery Representative and Military...
by Carole Duff | Jul 8, 2013 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Over the Independence Day holiday, Keith and I installed a closet organization system in the master bedroom closet. Some months ago, the original long shelf fell down under the weight of my cedar storage hanging-bag. We replaced that long shelf with a unit that has...
by Carole Duff | Jul 1, 2013 | Writing and Reading |
Why do people become writers? The question arose during my Creative Nonfiction class at WriterHouse. One of my classmates, a clinical psychologist, said that people work for three reasons: money, career or mission. I wondered if one could work for all three reasons,...
