The Detective’s Cork-Board
As I awkwardly lurch out of bed and gingerly shuffle to the kitchen to turn on the kettle, I have one person on my heart. I reach for my favorite jasmine tea dn stop dead in my bedroom slipper tracks.
Texas January Gardening Checklist
What to do in a Texas Garden in January is “iffy” business. . . if we’ve had a hard freeze yet, if it’s been a dry winter so far, or if warm temperatures have been persistently stubborn.
Holiday Afterglow
I have to let go of the picture of what I thought it would be like and learn to find joy in the story I am actually living.
What Do You Want?
I can’t believe it’s been three years, last November, since I started sharing these bi-weekly posts! I am humbly grateful to you, my readers, for joining me in this adventure.
“She” Ain’t Heavy
Have you heard of the song, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” by the Hollies? The story behind this song stems from the early 1900’s when Father Flanagan, the founder of Boy’s Town, was glancing through a magazine showing a picture of an older boy carrying a younger boy on his back. The caption read, “He ain’t heavy mister. . . he’s my brother.”
Winter Cleaning, not Spring Cleaning!
After taking down Christmas and before pulling back your “normal” items from where you hid them in your excitement to decorate for the holidays the day after Thanksgiving, give all your surfaces a good cleaning. There’s no need to go out and buy fancy cleaners to do the job, just follow my easy directions and concoct your own product!
New Year’s Watch-night
These are my mother’s words.
“I think I mentioned before the importance of New Year’s Eve as one of the major holidays. The first year in Beirut, some people were casually gathered in our home and they stayed and stayed.”
Wise Men
We Three Kings of Orient are, Bearing gifts we travel so far, Field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star. O, star of wonder, star of night, star with royal beauty bright, westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light.
I’ve never taken time to understand the depth of meaning behind this story and carol.
“Hygge,” What is That?!?!
The Danish term, hygge, is a lifestyle word referring to finding comfort, pleasure, and warmth in simple, soothing things such as a cozy feeling of contentment through cherishing the little things. Why not apply this to your Christmas decorating?
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
My senses not only navigate the world for me, teaching me the qualities and measures of my surroundings, but they also trigger memories, the hauntingly pleasant ones and the the anxious not so good ones.