by Carole Duff | Oct 26, 2020 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
Sunday morning, I woke to the dark, soothing sound of rain. What time is it? I wondered. I stared at the digital clock on the bureau facing our bed and blinked to bring the red-lighted display into focus. 7:00 am. “Keith! It’s 7 o’clock! We need to leave for...
by Carole Duff | Oct 19, 2020 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
I dreamed it was twenty-five years ago, and my teenaged daughter was learning to drive. We had visited the Dallas Museum of Art—we lived in Texas back then—and were dropping my grade-school son at a friend’s birthday party on the way home. While monitoring my...
by Carole Duff | Oct 7, 2020 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
We sat in lawn chairs around an open fire, glad for the warmth against the crisp evening and the physical distancing we’ve experienced in the past several months. Our pastor and his wife had invited the elders and their wives for a backyard gathering and dessert. All...
by Carole Duff | Sep 21, 2020 | Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
I got my sense of humor from my mother. I’d tell her my tragedies. She’d make me laugh. She said comedy is tragedy plus time. – Carol Burnett “I think we’re going the wrong way,” my son David said. We had decided to take the longer, more leisurely trail back to the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 31, 2020 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
While the remnants of hurricane Laura soaked the forest on Saturday morning, I sipped green tea and finished Janine Urbaniak Reid’s memoir The Opposite of Certainty. Reading about her brush with alcohol abuse in her teens and early twenties, I thought about the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 17, 2020 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Snippet #1: Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling… At night, I draw the covers under my chin, snuggling against the chill and steady patter. Rain in August is a welcome respite. But then the days dawn dark and damp. Snippet #2: So I just did...
