by Carole Duff | Dec 7, 2020 | Faith, Family |
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the...
by Carole Duff | Nov 30, 2020 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
Last night I had the strangest dreamI ever dreamed beforeI dreamed the world had all agreedTo put an end to war From the song written in 1950 by singer-songwriter Ed McCurdy and recorded by Simon and Garfunkel for their Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. album...
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.