Wrote the guest post today at  https://blog.ourchurch.com/2010/05/25/31dbbb-day-17-watch-a-first-time-reader-use-your-blog/ .  My friend and neighbor, Joyce, volunteered to play guinea pig and help me with this project by reviewing my blog. …

    Google Images      The storm clouds have swirled around me, clung to me, laid damp and dreary against my chest.  I had no weather warning that a storm was…

     Taco salad, chock full of meat, melted Colby/Jack cheese, torn lettuce leaves, chopped bell pepper and tomatoes, green chilies, and crowned with Fritos was on the dinner menu. …

       Our youngest son has been recruited by our friends to help them with some yard work at their home and rental properties.  He has always been a hard worker…

     I have a friend who always told me, “Plan Your Work; Work Your Plan.  Easy for her.  I am not disciplined.  A “fly by the seat of your pants”…

     Today’s workshop assignment involved coming up with 10 new post ideas that we could spin off of a previous post.  Scribbling circles around my paper, the center of this…

     Requests for my Mom’s melt-in-your-mouth orange loaf recipe and her moist, rich chocolate cake have been pulsing to me through the electronic chat waves.  Just writing these down transported…

    My cousin and I were reminiscing by email about my mother’s delicious baked goods.  It is an undisputed fact in our family that my Mom, Aunt Louise, was a…

“As the mountains surround Jerusalem,so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore.”Psalm 125: 2 NIV      Strong.  Majestic.  Protecting.  The mountains enfold me.  They encircle me with peace…

  “O Lord my God, I will give You thanks, forever!”  Psalm 30 ends with this proclamation from the depths of the writer’s heart.  What gives rise to such overwhelming…