by Sheila Graham Smith | Jun 6, 2025 | Gardening Tips
Think of ways to manage “playing” in the garden for the next few months. The heat is brutal! 1. Try to “play” on days that are overcast and move around your garden as the shade moves from one location to another. 2. Most of your planting is...
by Sheila Graham Smith | May 20, 2025 | Meditation
While it’s still somewhat cool in the early dawn hours, I like to sip my jasmine green tea on the back porch and ever so slowly greet the new day. The birds are the first to wake up. I hear them way before I see them! My niece introduced me to an app which...
by Sheila Graham Smith | May 6, 2025 | Recipes
Two variables are colliding at once this month: children and grandchildren will be home for the summer and the price of groceries are going up. This recipe can make your life easier and will cost you a whole lot less than buying a baking mix from your grocery store!...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Apr 29, 2025 | Meditation
April has come and gone with its multitude of celebrations, whether Easter or family birthdays all clustered together. Both of my boys, now 46 and 47, were born in April in a small TX county hospital. What I remember about coming home to the parsonage in Morgan, TX...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Apr 4, 2025 | Meditation
One of my coping skills for dealing with chronic pain is visualizing specific others who are walking through trauma that is way beyond my imagination. If I see a news story about refugees fleeing their country with nothing but the clothes on their backs I say,...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Mar 28, 2025 | Gardening Tips
It’s not too late to plant your seeds, whether those you’ve harvested from last year, or the ones you’ve purchased in those cute little colorful packages. This year, I received seeds as a favor from a baby announcement and I spread them out in a full...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Mar 11, 2025 | Recipes
All of us “Graham girls” feel at ease entertaining; I guess because my mom taught us by osmosis. We each had our rotating roles in the kitchen. She taught us things like: if you’re baking, double the recipe and put the extra in the freezer, use fresh...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Mar 1, 2025 | Meditation
One of our favorite shows to watch is Finding Your Roots on PBS. Recently, a phrase that one of the participants repeated often was,”be the answer to your ancestor’s prayers.” I scrambled for a scrap of paper to jot it down before I forgot it, which...
by Sheila Graham Smith | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
On a cold and wet winter afternoon, I do love a cup of tea around 4:00 in the afternoon with a little something not too sweet, but just sweet enough. I find that a slice of pumpkin bread is just right. This recipe is so easy and it makes two loaves, one for the...
