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AN EXPERIMENT IN BLOOM This past spring, I had leftover flower seeds and a leftover flower pot from the previous year. Why not just throw some seeds in there and see what happens? This was the result: It became …
AWASH IN PICKLES In my whole life, I have not eaten any pickle that wasn't made by my mother. It's the kind of pickle that is very sweet; you can't buy them in the store. When I eat them, I often think of my mother'…
KEEPING YOUR HEAD UP Years ago, my Older Son took swimming lessons at the home of a marvelous teacher. She was stern, but very encouraging. The children made huge advances in their swimming and she made them strong i…
MOVING OVER It interests me, that all through our lives–if we seek to think about others more than ourselves–we will give and adapt and adjust in order to sustain and cultivate relationships. Parenting demands …
VALENTINE'S DAY Valentine’s Day was always a special event when I was growing up, because my mother always bought us a little gift and candy. I still have the plastic pin she bought me, and each year I manage to find an…
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE A few posts back, I-Was-There-And-Back-Again commented on this photo, saying the chair looked like it had droopy rabbit ears. One week later, the chair looks like this: On the deck, there is …
SMALL TOWN EXCITEMENT I was born and raised in a small town in Indiana, a one-stoplight town where EVERYone knows EVERYone else. As I was growing up, I struggled with this, because there was no privacy, everyone had o…
JUST FOLLOWING ALONG Teacherperson passed along the game of Fourth Picture Tag, and I found an interesting photo in my files: This was taken last summer with my mother-in-law, her children, and their spouses. We are …
MIXING WITH THE MEOWS I should have been telling you our Cat Story all along, as it probably would have made interesting reading (yes, there are a lot of interesting parts to it, believe me), but it has been so close t…
THANKSGIVING UP OUR DIRECTION I didn’t know I was supposed to write a Thanksgiving post till all my xanga friends pointed it out, so I only took one photo on the Big Day. But it does tell a story. I was planning…