by Carole Duff | Dec 9, 2019 | Faith, Reading & Musings, Work & Writing |
I sat across the table from my editor at Panera in Barracks Road Shopping Center. We’d met for lunch and to debrief her review of my faith memoir. I came prepared with points for discussion about the twelve of forty chapters she’d noted, those not fully connected to...
by Carole Duff | Dec 2, 2019 | Faith, Reading & Musings |
I couldn’t get the song out of my head. It haunted me as I walked the mountain road this past week—huffing the final incline up our driveway—and while driving to and from a joyful Thanksgiving with family. O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That...
by Carole Duff | Dec 3, 2018 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Miscellaneous |
Today, my post for the beginning of Advent, published on The Perennial Gen: https://theperennialgen.com/o-holy-night/. Picture taken last year on Christmas Eve at Bethany Lutheran Church in Virginia. Blessings to you all. -C.D.
by Carole Duff | Dec 4, 2017 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Last month’s killing frosts had rendered our meadow plants dormant. It was time to mow before snow arrived. On Saturday morning, Keith fueled and started the gas-powered weed-whacker for me then held it while I donned ear and eye protections and adjusted the shoulder...
by Carole Duff | Nov 28, 2016 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
Last Friday afternoon, I stopped by our local grocery store to pick up a baguette and tomatoes—grape, slicing, and canned—for a soup-and-salad lunch I planned to make on Sunday after church. The checkout girl excused herself, saying she needed to run to the bank for...
