Prayers Blog Posts
Fatayir, Lebanese Spinach Pies
My oldest sister, Catherine, and her husband Jim are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this summer. They have invited the whole family to Taos, New Mexico for several days of celebrating. One evening, we are all invited to their place for a come and go...
Steps and Ladders
I enjoy browsing estate and garage sales. What do I look for? Yup, "things" for the garden or quilting. I hit the jackpot when one of the estate sale homes had a designated sewing room filled with my kind of goodies: an armoir stacked to the max with neatly organized...
Stacked Fruit Birthday Cake Alternative
Summer is here and all I seem to want to eat is fruit! We have a small group of friends who gather once a month at each other's homes for a meal and celebrate birthdays that fall in that month. Lately, everyone seems to be trying to eat healthy, so this month's...
What to Do in the June Texas Garden
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 already done, but you can...
Listening
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 listens...
Master “Bisquick” Baking Mix
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!...
Bluebonnets and Larkspurs
Bluebonnets and Larkspur
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...
The Trauma Olympics
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, "At...
It’s Not Too Late
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 sun spot. They're...