by Carole Duff | Feb 9, 2016 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
“Thank you for taking time to visit with me again,” I said to Pastor Tim Bohlmann at Bethany Lutheran Church in Waynesboro, Virginia. We sat across from one another at a small table in his office. Light reflecting off the snow outside the windows cast the room in...
by Carole Duff | Feb 1, 2016 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
After 9/11, writer Dani Shapiro, her husband journalist-turned-screenwriter Michael Maren and their young son Jacob moved from New York City to rural Connecticut. She tried to have another child, but suffered miscarriages, and now was in her forties. Jacob was...
by Carole Duff | Jan 25, 2016 | Faith, Local or Human Interest |
I pulled the truck into the grocery store lot and looked for a parking space. Vehicles jockeyed with one another and whizzed around shoppers pushing carts. The winter sun belied an impeding storm, which promised two days of cold, blowing snow. Inside the store,...
by Carole Duff | Jan 18, 2016 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
One day at the Recovery Café, James raised his voice, disturbing others. This wasn’t his first incident. He was out of control and probably off his meds. “You have gotten yourself cut off from almost every place of support in this city,” one of the counselors said to...
by Carole Duff | Jan 11, 2016 | Local or Human Interest |
Sugar, sugar, honey, honey You are my candy girl And you got me wanting you Back in the 60s The Archies weren’t really singing about sweets, but I was over the holidays. I warbled to cookies and ice cream and pie – oh my! And wolfed them down. Oh honey, did I...
by Carole Duff | Jan 4, 2016 | Faith, Family |
“The flowers on the altar are given by Scott and Barbara in honor of their 37th anniversary and Hal and Shirley who celebrated their 64th on that same day,” read the announcement in the December 20th weekly bulletin for Bethany Lutheran Church. Pastor Tim Bohlmann...
