This Christmas I received a gift that has filled me with such joy... even now when I think of it my heart swells and the tears come freel...

This morning started with eyes glued tight and swollen shut, exhausted from so many to-doings and wondering if I should leave the warm comfo...

This Christmas finds me... working at two churches working through grief and guilt working on renovating a master suite working on upcoming...

Oh, the gifts!  Autumn joys and twinklings of light and smiling love.  In the midst of pain and loss, so very many gifts arrive to restore m...

For the beauty of the earth For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies. Lord of all, to ...

So... remember those lovely Virginia apples pictured in my last post ?  They've been canned!  (Not like 'fired' but put in jars ...

Wanting to feel like myself again, I told my husband about the Fall Festival at Five Points Community Farm Market and traveled to Norfolk fo...