If you’ve ever relaxed on the grass on a warm day and watched the clouds float lazily by, you may have played a game to…
Several years ago, my husband and I were teaching a Bible class for young children. I started to hand out pieces of different, colored construction…
For today’s Weird Word Wednesday, let’s look at three words which I recently included in Pamela’s Prompts: kenspeckle, xerarch and zaftig. Yesterday, we explored writing…
Here’s a writing prompt for all you poets out there, and those who are poets and don’t yet know it. (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.)…
Valentine’s Day is sneaking up on us. It’s exactly one week from today. Are you ready? No matter if your valentine is your fiancé/fiancée, your…
Crash! Three days before Christmas, my husband and I heard the unmistakable sound of breaking glass. We hurried downstairs, thinking that our always-curious cat Quill…
For today’s Weird Word Wednesday, let’s look at three words which deal with the human body: Calcaneus, nyctalopia and trichotillomania. Here’s what www.merriam-webster (unabridged edition)…
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day and in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (say that three times fast) legend has it that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow and…
Over the holidays, I was delighted to see that our neighborhood had erected a Little Free Library. The cute, bright-yellow library is shaped like a…
As soon as you open a browser window, the headlines scream things at you like “Texas Girl Gets Trapped in Sewage Drain by Two Large…