I thought it would be rather ironic to share a post about spring on the last day of winter with 6 inches of fresh snow on the ground. 🙂 Happy last day of winter everyone! A few minutes ago, if the occupants of the dark green truck driving by bothered to look up, they would […]
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An Update, a Picture, and a Proverb
Eeeek, I missed last week’s post! The first for this year. 🙁 This past week I was busy working and the week before that I was busy not working. Excuses, I know. 🙂 But I have been doing some writing, and just to pique your curiosity, I’m going to say that there is going to […]
2013 Reading List
I thought it would be fun to share some of the books I’m planning on reading this year. In my blog reading I came across several books that sounded interesting, so I decided to compile a list of the ones I wanted to read. I’ve been getting what I can from the library, and I’m […]
Frosty Morning
One morning, almost exactly four years ago, I woke up early and when I looked out of my window, I discovered a world covered with glittering shards of ice. The dazzling sight enticed me to go out of my warm house into the clear, cold morning, and I had a memorable experience capturing as many […]
Love was Sweeter Then
Emma watched her grandmother’s face, more captivated by what she saw there than on the television, where a black-and-white film showed a couple parting at a train station. The young woman stood on the train station platform, waving her handkerchief at the receding form of a soldier hanging as far as humanly possible over the […]
Weapons of Mass Destruction
When my eyes landed on this picture in Time magazine, a shock ran through me. I’d never seen what is used to perform abortions before. The caption under the picture said something like “Instruments used for a surgical abortion”, but my mind immediately classified them as something else: weapons of mass destruction. Every year more […]