It was a dark and stormy night. (Or, it could have been. It was dark anyways.) Okay. So... it was a dark and not-stormy night. Last night. I...

OhgoshOhgoshOhgosh... Freeman House finally has a bath! You couldn't find a happier person right now. Or a cleaner one. After bathing ou...

"Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."...

Autumn is my favorite. There's something about the fall that grabs me every year. Maybe it's autumn's stillness - the way trees...

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and someday I wou...

If I was a true optimist, I would call it an "adventure". If I was a poet, I'd call it my Wanderjahr ... my time spent wanderi...

  Ah, the knitted, round cloths. These are a staple at Freeman House- so much so that I've begun calling them House Helpers . I use ...

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. -Mohandas Gandhi I was looking a...

So... um... gosh! A lot's happened since we were last here, huh? Israel's in a rapidly-escalating war. Campisi's was voted the ...

I have a headache today. The kind of headache that parks itself between your eyes and threatens to punch its way out through your peeper-soc...

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams, 1780 There's someth...

From the ends of the earth I call to You, I call as my heart grows faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. -Psalm 61:2-3 The view ...

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. - Walter Winchell Ah, summer. Within the next calendar week we'll be h...

'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the e...

Hi there. Welcome to my blog! Running since 2005, this blog is a meandering chronicle of my messy life. So... hey! I'm Brin. And I adore...

I overheard a farmer yesterday talking about this year's corn crop. Apparently the USDA is forecasting that 8 million fewer bushels of ...

It was Mark Twain who said, "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second h...

(WARNING: The following blog contains opinions that will be offensive to some audiences. Reader caution is advised.) Spit and the Siloam I g...

I used to want to live in a tree. I love trees. I love oaks and maples and magnolias and even the ones I don't know the names of. Trees ...

The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made. -Psalm 145:9 I was taking a shower this morning when I saw something out of ...