by Carole Duff | Sep 9, 2019 | Faith, Family |
It started early this summer. Some of the drop-down features on our online banking site caused the dreaded rainbow ball to spin and a few, rarely-used features didn’t show on my laptop screen. I used Keith’s desktop to do what I needed to do and worked around the...
by Carole Duff | Jun 24, 2019 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature, Writing and Reading |
One of our neighbors died last week—he’d been ill for months and in pain. I wrote about buying a gift certificate for his retirement in this post from October 2014. When a customer at the local bistro remarked about my generosity, and I said: “A man in our...
by Carole Duff | May 27, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
My daughter Jessica and I amble along the road toward The Peak in western Hong Kong. It’s the rainy season—warm, humid, misty, and foggy. Welcome breezes cool us and ward off bugs, though we sprayed our exposed skin with repellent before starting out. There are other...
by Carole Duff | Apr 22, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Local or Human Interest |
“Freya, come,” I called out the kitchen door. Though Heathcliff came and waited inside the door, she trotted in the opposite direction. Apparently, she wanted to run and bark a little longer before breakfast. “Heathcliff, sit,” I said, holding his food bowl above his...
by Carole Duff | Jan 7, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Freya leaned the right side of her body against the deck railing while I combed the undercoat on her left side. During the holidays, I’d neglected to brush her thick coat regularly, and she was sprouting tufts of fur. “Good girl, Freya, good girl,” I said as she...