Neighbors

It’s a neighborhood of front porches and sidewalks.   Where people go for walks and stop and chat if they feel like it or keep on going with a wave if they don’t. Either is okay.  Where there are friends to play with across the street and the lady next door who walks her dogs twice [...]

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Butterflies, resting

(October 9…) It was a Sunday morning Mass (October 27) File this under “Posts I started but now have no idea why or what it was going to be about.” Seems pretty boring and/or pretentious, so it’s probably a blessing I never finished it.

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That time of year

    And if anyone needs a small carpenter's square after next week, just let me know. I'm thinking I'm probably not going to be using it.

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Where’s everyone going?

My life is already being poured away as a libation, and the time has come for me to be gone. (2 Timothy 4) Avondale Park, 10/23

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Let’s Try this

Here’s another attempt to send some of these books out into the world to welcoming homes. (Which is always my hope, and why I can’t just indiscriminately dump the books – I want to make sure (to try at least) that they are going where someone who’s interested might find them.) I’m giving Big Cartel [...]

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I tried

I tried to be all writerly and go to a coffee shop for the afternoon. Well, it wasn’t exactly a coffee shop, although people do go there for the coffee, but since I’m not a coffee drinker, I don’t care about that, so I go for the Fennel Salad instead. And the old wooden vegetable [...]

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Real Books = Still Good

I rid my life of more books this week – not a lot, just a single box.  I tried something different this time: a new concept from Books-A-Million ( HQ’d here), which seems to be taking your basic well-run second-hand media store (I think of McKay’s in Knoxville) and attempting to make a chain of [...]

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Just to clarify…

I wasn’t camping. (I’ve been camping all of once – when Joseph was probably 18 months old, we took a trip up to Canada and camped near Lake Ontario.  One of the many fruits of the trip was my husband’s absorption of a phrase posted throughout the campground, referring to the timber we were advised [...]

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Clearly, I am not grasping the concept

…of this thing called “camping.”       (10/9/10 – Tannehill Ironworks State Park.)

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Catholic England (ETA – and America. And Alabama)

An enthusiastic thumbs-up for a website everyone else probably already knows about, but that I just discovered: Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation. This week’s In Our Time takes on The Spanish Armada as its subject, and gives due, if brief attention to religious concerns.  Even if you have no interest in the religious concerns, [...]

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