by Carole Duff | Nov 21, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature |
I had to laugh. Cato puppy had followed me up the trail behind our house and was looking around to see or hear why I had stopped. He loves to race through the woods on the mountain where we live in the Blue Ridge. But it wasn’t Cato who had caused me to explode with...
by Carole Duff | Sep 19, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature |
Spontaneous insects A spontaneous reaction: hundreds of angry hornets, acting on instinct to protect their nest. But it was the landscape crew that needed protection. They had cut down a dead tree along the walking trail above the driveway and discovered the tree was...
by Carole Duff | Apr 11, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family |
Curly, Cato, and Slick – photographed by “Shirley” “I’m writing about the pandemic and would like your opinion,” I said to my neighbor Shirley [name changed] as we walked. We had three dogs on leash—mine and two from another neighbor who is unable to...
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 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Forgiveness requires us to own up to our sins and confront our brothers and sisters in Christ when they do wrong. Today, I revisit a post about the former, published by The Perennial Gen last Friday as Learning to Speak Forgiveness, and a version of which first...
by Carole Duff | Nov 8, 2021 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Cato and Freya have been grieving, since Heathcliff died in June. Twelve-year-old Freya keeps mostly to herself, but three-year-old Cato has seemed lost. For a while, he refused breakfast, as Heathcliff had toward the end, and curled in his crate. Freya has done...
