by Carole Duff | Jul 13, 2020 | Faith, Local or Human Interest |
Yesterday, I had an opportunity to get over myself. The story behind this picture of me, reading Isaiah 55:10-13 at Bethany Lutheran Church, appears in a guest post on The Perennial Gen that went live last Thursday:...
by Carole Duff | Jul 6, 2020 | Family, Local or Human Interest |
Our new neighbors arrived late Saturday afternoon for a 4th of July picnic here at Vanaprastha. They brought fresh-cut veggies, dip, chips, and coleslaw. Keith grilled brats, and I made slow cooker baked beans, potato salad, and vanilla ice cream with strawberries and...
by Carole Duff | Jun 29, 2020 | Family, Local or Human Interest |
Thursday evening, Keith and I walked into the Ivy Inn Restaurant, located in an old house in Charlottesville. Face masks in place, we greeted the hostess who checked our reservation and showed us to an outside table on the large covered patio. It was the first time...
by Carole Duff | Jun 22, 2020 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
One afternoon last week, Cato puppy and I headed to the mailbox. Freya dog loves to run in the woods but doesn’t enjoy walking on the road—perhaps the gravel hurts her paw pads. And these days, Heathcliff dog is too old and arthritic to make the trip. So, it was just...
by Carole Duff | Jun 15, 2020 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Proverbs 15:1 (NIV) I lay in bed in the middle of the night, wakeful and worried. During the day, migraine auras had flashed like white and black lightning streaks in the peripheral field...
by Carole Duff | Jun 8, 2020 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Last Friday, a guest post of mine—a review of Leslie Leyland Fields’ Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living the Truth of Your Life—was posted on Brevity blog. A Review of Leslie Leyland Fields’ Your Story Matters When submitting the piece in early May,...
