Migrants for Dinner

Migrants for Dinner

Have you ever watched little kids playing soccer or basketball during their first years of attempting a team sport? No matter how much you might instruct them about playing their positions, they all flock together like a gang of hornets dive bombing towards a common...
Don’t Throw Yourself Away!

Don’t Throw Yourself Away!

Because I grew up in the church attending Sunday School, Worship, and Midweek Bible Study, when I hear scripture verses quoted in the defense of specific moral superiority or sanctimonious “rightness,” my eyes glaze over and my hearing gets muffled....
Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup

February is perfect for trying out new soups. I found the following recipe in an old Community Cookbook called The Cotton Country Collection, a gathering of tried and true recipes by the Junior Charity League of Monroe, Louisiana in 1972. Even though it is not an...
January Gardening, A Look Back

January Gardening, A Look Back

You’ve heard me say before that my garden is my healing place, whether I’m in it, or dreaming about it. In January, as all the seed catalogs are coming in, the perennials have died back, the trees have lost their leaves, and bare ground has been thoroughly...
What’s Your Legacy?

What’s Your Legacy?

I’ve been inspired by the reports about and the archived interviews with President Jimmy Carter. I can remember my father being so excited about having President Carter in office, especially when he told the nation that he would always tell the truth. These...

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