by Carole Duff | Mar 18, 2024 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
“We can just make it if you hurry,” her husband shouts over the roar of two skiffs’ engines, hers and his. Their boats are heavy with salmon pulled from the Gulf of Alaska, and they must deliver their catch to the tender on time. That means, instead of going around...
by Carole Duff | Jul 31, 2023 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
BIG milestones In Your Story Matters, Leslie Leyland Fields gives this advice to a beginning memoirist: “Make a time line for every five to ten years of your life (depending on how old you are), marking important events: places you’ve lived, jobs you’ve held, major...
by Carole Duff | Mar 20, 2023 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
A story has to have a central narrative and a moral or a point. A plant’s life story Despite this morning’s chill, one brave little Virginia Bluebell lifted its head, craving the warmth of the sun. Spring has arrived early here at Vanaprastha. Daffodils, vinca, and...
by Carole Duff | Feb 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Forgiveness requires us to own up to our sins and confront our brothers and sisters in Christ when they do wrong. Today, I revisit a post about the former, published by The Perennial Gen last Friday as Learning to Speak Forgiveness, and a version of which first...
by Carole Duff | Jan 10, 2022 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
“Look, this is important,” Keith said, looking over his shoulder into the garage. “I know you think this is a comfortable place. But trust me, you don’t want to stay here.” Keith and I were standing outside the open garage door, as he readied to chop wood and I...
