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...
by Carole Duff | Nov 21, 2016 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature, Writing and Reading |
This past weekend, Keith and I visited family in southern Virginia. Indian Summer’s warm sunshine and gentle breezes graced us as we walked the fields behind Keith’s brother and sister-in-law’s property. Heathcliff and Freya frolicked and smiled, their doggie tongues...
by Carole Duff | Oct 24, 2016 | Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Two weeks ago Heathcliff and I walked down the mountain road to pick up the mail—our usual routine on days when I work at home and the weather is favorable. I opened the mailbox, and there was a package from my Aunt Margaret. It was the genealogy of my father’s family...
by Carole Duff | May 2, 2016 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Early Saturday morning, I parked near the Lake Monocan clubhouse and unloaded the lemon poppy seed bread I’d made that morning, a large bag of trail mix and other materials for the day. It was the annual Women’s Retreat for Bethany Lutheran Church. Spring rains had...
by Carole Duff | Feb 9, 2016 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
“Thank you for taking time to visit with me again,” I said to Pastor Tim Bohlmann at Bethany Lutheran Church in Waynesboro, Virginia. We sat across from one another at a small table in his office. Light reflecting off the snow outside the windows cast the room in...
