Mistletoe has romantic connotations. Hang a sprig, preferably with white berries, in a doorway, and a person passing beneath gets kissed. When I was a child, we’d climb high into a tree and harvest mistletoe to sell during the Christmas season. It took courage and agility, as well as the risk of a broken bone …
I love maple syrup on my pancakes but checking the prices the other day, I stood mid-aisle gaping. Holy screaming catfishes! The imitation syrup sitting right next to the real stuff is so much cheaper – if “cheaper” is even a word we can use these days. Why is maple syrup so expensive? Well, it …
Remember. How many times does that word appear in Scripture? Remember. As I grow older, I have more frequent lapses of memory. Having “a senior moment” as they say. I can make repeated trips to get something because when I get to where that something is and find something else that needs doing and forget …
If you are discouraged about what’s happening in our country and want to see change, consider your responsibility as a voter. Be wise in whom you put into office. 1 – Consider the quality of the candidate, not name recognition or how many paid ads are running on TV. The most vocal, visual, and visceral …
False information is being promoted by the government and media about medical centers that give care to pregnant women in crisis. They are often called pregnancy clinics and care centers – pccs. I have visited many across our country and am a strong supporter of our local pregnancy medical and care center. Our local PMC …
This is the heading for editorial letters in our local newspaper, but so far, I have not been able to get a (200 word) pro-life letter published. Therefore, because I believe what’s happening here in my home state of California is a foreshadowing of what could happen elsewhere, I am speaking out where I can. …
…flock together. And we have a variety in our backyard. Morning and evening, a wedge of geese flies over. A charm of finches flutter around our feeders. A posse of turkeys parade across the green space, some brave enough to jump the fence. They are welcome to gobble grapes, now that the harvest is safely …
I attended a lovely baby shower the other day. We gathered around picnic tables beneath the valley oaks, talked and played games, laughed, and shared the celebration of a miracle – a baby soon to be born. The miracle started with conception. According to scientists, all the DNA necessary to set the course of a …
One would never guess it’s the end of summer when we are facing triple digit heat out here in California. We still have our Sonoma County cool heavy mist in the morning that drenches our deck and gives the redwood trees a pre-dawn drink before the sun burns through around noontime. Lovely summer coastal weather. …
While visiting southern Nevada, I noticed the profusion of green, feathery bushes and trees. There didn’t seem to be much else growing, other than tumble weeds that rolled across roads and mounded against fences. What was all that green? Salt cedars. These trees don’t look anything like the cedars with which I’m familiar – ones …