by Carole Duff | Mar 14, 2022 | Family |
“Let’s start the meeting by sharing three things you received for free—free gifts,” said one of the members of our Thursday night small group. “I’ll go first.” While she spoke about the dog she and her husband had been given recently, I listened and pondered. What...
by Carole Duff | Mar 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family |
History Keepers appeared last week on The Perennial Gen as part of this month’s theme based on Michelle Van Loon’s just-released and highly recommended book Translating Your Past. *** During Mother’s years in assisted care, I made the daytrip to share lunch with her...
by Carole Duff | Feb 21, 2022 | Faith, Family |
My mother had warned me. “Watch out for the quiet ones, they’ll surprise you.” She shook her head and smiled. When I was in fourth grade, a tall, quiet, redheaded boy walked across the classroom and handed me a homemade, red poster-painted Paper Mache heart on...
by Carole Duff | Feb 14, 2022 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
Commit is an appropriate word for Valentine’s Day for Keith and me. I’ve written about our love story for The Perennial Gen, but the short version is captured by Ann Voskamp in her newest book WayMaker, releasing on March 15*. “Detours are the...
by Carole Duff | Dec 27, 2021 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Last week, while Daughter and I raked and blew leaves from the ditch along the road at the foot of our property—as our sons had last spring—I thought about lessons learned this Christmas. Lessons about sticks. Lessons about work. Lessons about best-laid plans. Lessons...
by Carole Duff | Nov 29, 2021 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
My father is the three-year-old boy, looking to his right. My father’s memories I clicked on the sound file and heard my dear father’s early 1990’s, post-stroke voice, recounting memories from his childhood. He had dictated a letter to my older sister for his...
