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A Thanksgiving Devotional on November’s Sage Forum

A Thanksgiving Devotional on November’s Sage Forum

by Carole Duff | Nov 25, 2024 | Faith, Family | 2 comments

This Thanksgiving Devotional of mine posted to The Sage Forum last Friday. Here I include pictures of my uncle making himself useful, my father with my uncle in professional clothes but obviously busy with another work project, and my uncle and dear aunt. Fond, fond...
Writing a Memoir Partly About a Person I Never Met, Part I

Writing a Memoir Partly About a Person I Never Met, Part I

by Carole Duff | Sep 9, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading | 2 comments

What happens to us in our youth impacts the rest of our lives. Sorting that out later in life sets us on a hero’s journey. *** I found the journals while cleaning closets during spring break. Six 9-by-6-inch books written by my new husband’s daughter, who had taken...
Make joyful noises with music, food, and merriment

Make joyful noises with music, food, and merriment

by Carole Duff | Jul 22, 2024 | Faith, Family | 0 comments

Waking to lightning, thunder, and rain, I prayed, “Make more joyful noise, Lord,” knowing full well the psalmists were not exhorting God but His people, like me, to serve with gratitude. Make Joyful Music Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 100:1...
Choice: making a decision when faced with possibilities.

Choice: making a decision when faced with possibilities.

by Carole Duff | Jun 24, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading | 6 comments

“You can buy the property or not, your choice,” my daughter Jessica said to Abigail, her 7-year-old daughter. We three were playing the kids’ version of Monopoly. Abigail, who always went first—youngest to oldest—had landed on the Ice Cream Shop.  Abigail counted her...
Making the next generation of memories on Memorial Day

Making the next generation of memories on Memorial Day

by Carole Duff | May 27, 2024 | Family | 3 comments

Past Memorial Days and making memories in the present. Past memories On Memorial Day when I was growing up, we always drained the muddy water and scrubbed algae from the walls of the 45’x90’ spring-fed pool my father had built for the neighborhood the year before...
What do I dedicate myself to in the third stage of life?

What do I dedicate myself to in the third stage of life?

by Carole Duff | Mar 11, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading | 6 comments

When we woke to steady rain on Saturday morning, I wondered, “What do I dedicate my time to today?” Not yard work or dog-walking or housecleaning or cooking, since Keith was going to our church’s Men’s Breakfast and would only want a snack later. Yes, to reading,...
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