Quiet Days

The weather is turning to the delightful coolness of a Maryland Autumn, and the blue skies have been a happy sight for most of the days this week. There are trees touched with brilliant colors and the portent of a pleasant new season fills me with anticipation...

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California Adventure

My friend Gwen invited us to come visit her family's cabin in California. I have a soft spot for family cabins in the woods, so I was pleased to be invited and many months ago, I made a plan with her to actually go. Labor Day weekend was the time and...

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Where In the World??

All this week since I got home I've heard the comment over and over, "Wow, you sure have been traveling a lot." It's a theme and I can't deny it. I have been gone a lot, ever since June. Because I'm blessed, my life here still held together. The only...

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Caught Napping

I feel to say Phew. For the first time since April, there is nothing big on my calendar for a long, long time. I'm back to normal life, whatever that is. Every single thing I've been doing since then has been really awesome. But it must mean something...

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Summing Up

Okay, it's been almost 2 months since we got home, but I'm still all aglow that I go to go abroad this summer. So, bear with me for one last post.  I want to gather my thoughts about how this trip to Europe has influenced me. Let's face it, when...

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Book Review: The Flavia deLuce Novels

by Alan Bradley These delightful reads, part Matilda, part Agatha Christie, with a little I Capture the Castle thrown in, follow the adventures of precocious 11-year old sleuth Flavia deLuce on her adventures in and around her family's decaying estate...

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