Best macaroni & cheese in the world
One of my greatest joys is serving family and friends around our dining room table. It is the place we sit face to face or shoulder to shoulder, and connect in a way not otherwise possible. Our dining room table is an anchor, an altar, the place we often return...
A Fourth of July neighborly tradition
{Originally posted two years ago, but the tradition is still going strong and ended with a yummy barbecue potluck at our club house. And we almost missed it because I was thinking it was going to be MONDAY!!} Our neighborhood resurrected a years' old...
Third World Symphony and the stalker
When I think of Shaun Groves, I always, always think of Annie Wilkes, Paul Sheldon's "rescuer" in the Stephen King novel, Misery, perhaps better remembered as Kathy Bates and James Caan in the movie adaptation of the book; which incidentally I never...
Baseball bats and the difference between friends and BEST friends
Sometimes I do or say things my kids don't care for. Like when I tell them "Do (or don't do) ________, or I'll take a baseball bat to your knee caps." For example, "If you or any of your friends ride your RipStick down our VERY STEEP...
The Magical House at Woodlawn
"To have discovered that magic truly exists is worth the price of growing up. It is not visible to the eye, it is seen by the heart. Nor is it something you grasp, for the soul is its keeper. General passers-by will not hear it, only the...
The beauty of…feet???
It was bound to happen. For the blogger– whose profile picture was a picture of her feet for years… when googling her {blog name + feet} ends up with FIVE different posts on the first page…and that isn't even all of 'em!...
A new perspective of old friends
One Thousand Gifts ~ Multitudes on Monday
I'm back from a long weekend in the place where my marriage was infant-nurtured, my babies were conceived and loved by a hundred mamas, and that still feels like going home though I wasn't born there. Well-familiar faces give me reason to add to my...
Not friends, yet
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.” ~ Robert Munsch (One of my favorite booksof all time!) “I’m so glad you haven’t forced me to be your best friend,” she says, not unkindly but without realizing the impact of...
Follow the yellow brick road….
So after an emotional day yesterday (well, at least for me… 🙂 ), I'm getting practical today over at Chasing Blue Skies. Sweet Kristen, one of the most encourging and enthusiastic voices on the interwebs, asked me a while back if...