by Carole Duff | Feb 14, 2022 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
Commit is an appropriate word for Valentine’s Day for Keith and me. I’ve written about our love story for The Perennial Gen, but the short version is captured by Ann Voskamp in her newest book WayMaker, releasing on March 15*. “Detours are the...
by Carole Duff | Jan 24, 2022 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Last week’s storm left my garden landscape bereft of possibility. Vanaprastha’s square-foot beds, meadow, plantings and forest—all buried in ice-capped snow. And yet, in the dead of winter with the sun setting low on the southwest horizon, I am preparing for...
by Carole Duff | Dec 20, 2021 | Faith |
What should we announce and what shouldn’t we? Yesterday, while listening to Pastor’s message about people’s awe (fear) when they saw the hand of the LORD at work with Elizabeth, Zechariah and their son John, I thought about how Scripture guides us when we come to...
by Carole Duff | Aug 23, 2021 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; -Psalm 86:11a “I’m reading Joanna Weaver’s Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, thinking about how people teach truth, and remembering my mother,” I said to my friend. We were enjoying our usual Friday...
by Carole Duff | Mar 8, 2021 | Faith, Family, Nature |
“Grandpa and Grandma thank you and miss you!!” I texted my daughter and granddaughter after opening the FedEx box that arrived in mid-December. As I wrote earlier that month, Christmas 2020 certainly happened but not together as a family. My daughter saw this...
