by Carole Duff | Dec 23, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Heathcliff loves this little person, who had her first encounter with snow today. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas—today’s note from Vanaprastha.
by Carole Duff | Nov 25, 2019 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
I stepped on the bathroom scale this morning and looked at the number. Ugh. With Thanksgiving three days away and Christmas and New Years ahead, I was already losing the battle between the turkey and the scale. Like many women, I put on weight in my fifties. The first...
by Carole Duff | Nov 18, 2019 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
We were settling into an evening of movie-watching when Keith said to me, “By the way, we’re out of peanuts, pistachios, chips and dip. We don’t eat them very often, but all we have for snacks is popcorn.” “Urgh, why didn’t you tell me sooner?” I scolded. “I went to...
by Carole Duff | Nov 11, 2019 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
This post on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_JunZ-ZwQ&feature=youtu.be I parked at a rest stop about two hours from home and an hour away from the care facility where my 96-year-old mother lives. Before heading back to the highway, I checked my...
by Carole Duff | Nov 4, 2019 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
It was late afternoon on Halloween, and I decided to give my young children baths before taking them trick-or-treating. That way, we’d get home, settle into story time, and go to bed reasonably close to our usual for a school night. Four-year-old Jessica offered to...
by Carole Duff | Oct 28, 2019 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading |
This coming Saturday is my father’s 96th birthday. Though he’s been gone for over twenty years, I still think of him on Father’s Day and his birthday. I remember him on Thanksgiving, carving the turkey, his Ho-Ho-Ho’s at Christmastime, plowing snow in winter, tilling...
