I wasn't going to introduce my new Etsy shop until April 15, when I roll out my new spring apron and... vintage slip dresses ! collectio...

It's one of those mornings: cloudy, windy, heavy. Through the waving grass and knocking branches, bird songs come, carried on the wind. ...

I celebrate and shout because You are kind. You saw all my suffering, and You cared for me. -Psalm 31:7 CEV God sees what you're going...

With my birthday this week, I'm in hit-and-miss party planning mode. I know it's... unconventional... throwing your own party, but I...

It seems as though I awoke from my picture-taking slumber. I've been snapping photos of everything again: apple blossoms, pressure canne...

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope . -Charles M. Schulz When my Great Grandmother Elizabeth's things were doled ou...

I had a post planned for today about uses for leftover cornbread. (While this may not be an issue for you, it is for this single, Southern g...

There's a tomato shortage right now. Had you heard? Down here in Texas, only folks who request tomatoes on their sandwiches or burgers g...

My visit to Istanbul back in March 2008 has been on my mind this week. Maybe it's the time of year, but that trip's bobbed to the s...

My brother, a student at a respected Bible college, and I got to talking over the weekend about God and Japan. God and disaster. God and ba...

Jellies and jams, it appears, were the delight of country homestead kitchens a hundred years ago. After all, what brown bread, hot biscui...

Recipe Photo Credit: They Draw & Cook  I've been on such a veggie kick lately. Legumes, carrots, spinach, avocado. Today I even pl...

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake  his life on it a thousand times. -Mar...

The garden is going in. The garden is going in! After months of dog-earing seed catalogues, sending away for heirloom and organic seeds, and...

I'm driving to my storage building some 30 miles away and emptying it, load by load, day by day. Saturday the "movers" (my bro...

It's the second day. Again. The dove is back.

I'm still painting. Still tearing open cardboard boxes, gasping or squealing when I find what's inside. Still washing and wiping dis...

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. -Psalm 62:5 I decided not to rush things; not to let my spontaneity gallop wildly th...

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. Clifton Paul Fadiman I'm learning to make cheese. It was on my list of 30 things I wante...

I love that God created strawberries. I love that God thought of music. I really love that God made orchids. I mean, it isn't hard to f...