by Carole Duff | Jan 30, 2023 | Faith |
Fake as a Faux Fur Throw The label clearly stated the fake: Faux Fur Throw, a gift that Keith and I received for Christmas. The throw made no apologies for being man-made, synthetic, and artificial, pseudo, simulated, a mock blanket. Not genuine. And one of the most...
by Carole Duff | Dec 6, 2021 | Faith |
Tears sprang into my eyes, and I remembered one of the 1951-ers singing, “It’s my body, and I’ll cry if I want to,” her take-off of the 60s Lesley Gore hit. I’ve irrigated my ears many times over the years, but this was the first time it hurt. Dry skin in...
by Carole Duff | Oct 4, 2021 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
Need to Love We need love—the highest attribute, according to Scripture: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 C.S. Lewis identified the four loves as affection (storge), friendship (philia), romantic...
by Carole Duff | Jul 5, 2021 | Faith |
Friendship on The Perennial Gen Friendship. “My friend Sarah says a relationship is like being at opposite ends of a bridge and meeting one another in the middle.” Thus, begins my July post for The Perennial...
by Carole Duff | Aug 31, 2020 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
While the remnants of hurricane Laura soaked the forest on Saturday morning, I sipped green tea and finished Janine Urbaniak Reid’s memoir The Opposite of Certainty. Reading about her brush with alcohol abuse in her teens and early twenties, I thought about the...