by Carole Duff | Dec 3, 2018 | Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest |
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 | May 7, 2018 | Faith, Local or Human Interest |
“Cut it,” I said to my hairdresser last Wednesday, “I’m done.” I pulled at my tresses, which flew this way and that. “I can’t stand my hair, blowing around and falling into my eyes.” “All right,” my hairdresser said with undisguised zeal. She grabbed a styling razor....
by Carole Duff | Apr 30, 2018 | Faith, Nature |
Springtime brings flowers and critters back to Vanaprastha. Keith and I are seeing creeping phlox, bluebells and fothergilla, skinks, tiger swallowtails and hummingbirds. But no shrews except Katherina, the Shrew in Shakespeare’s so-named play, which Keith and I saw...
by Carole Duff | May 15, 2017 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature |
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you, Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. Proverbs 4:25-27 I killed a bunny yesterday...
by Carole Duff | Feb 6, 2017 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
One morning a few days after last month’s snowstorm, I hopped into our all-wheel-drive Subaru and buckled my seatbelt, off to WriterHouse in Charlottesville. I pointed the car down the mountain road, which had not been plowed. Over night, slushy snowmelt had frozen...