I've been quietly working - for weeks - on a new shop. It's finally here. It's called, simply, Brin . I hope you like it. This...

A day of rest. I've needed one. After a dreadfully sad dream, I awoke to the decision to stay in my pajamas today, finish my scarflette,...

... You'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious— -the best, no...

I'm knitting a scarflette out of Italian wool the color of smoke. In my mind, sometime this autumn I'll wind it around my neck and ...

We're under a flash flood warning as spun-out hurricanes (turned storms) beat against our windows. My bed is fluffy and deep, though, so...

Make it your goal to live a quiet life.... -Bible, 1 Thessalonians 4:11 I'm all over that quiet life goal.... Wishing you a happy fa...

I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. - Emily Dickinson Sun ribbons saw me off each morning as I left for work. They gree...

It's all starting to hit me, I think: the loss, the fact that I can't go "home" at the end of the day. Strangely, the thi...

...The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. - Romans 8:18

In those days secrets were well kept... - Stuart Symington Everyone should have a secret tree. This is mine. This is the tree I would sit ...

I get nervous, usually, when I post my reading lists. It's silly, but when I stop to consider how diverse the readership of this blog ...

Turns out I want to do a little more with the Belated Summer Reading List than just shove a few titles at you through the computer screen ...

Today - after books, sunflowers and a rousing game of Taboo (with the likes of folks such as the incomparable Starla Ray ) - I'm headed ...

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. - Winston Churchill I ...

Rain the past few days means relief from the searing Texas heat. That's a blessing all around, especially for plants. Especially for p...

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him. - Psalms 62:5 Saturday. A quiet day of waiting. After lunch, I pulled on ...

I promise a return to normal blogging soon. Normal as in gardening, recipes, stories, pictures... the usual. The month of July, apparently,...

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill I adore this quote. Success isn't arbitra...

Remember these charming stamps ? They - and other favorites - are listed in my Etsy Shop , ready to find happy homes. Amazingly enough, I...

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. - Sam Keen I gathered what was left of the Freeman House tomato garden and brought it h...