THE HORI-HORI KNIFE OF MY FAITH I’ve waxed lyrical once before. About this nifty little tool that every serious, and not so serious, gardener, should own. Seven inches long, serrated on one side, sharpish on the other, marked in inches and centimeters with a sort of...
MY BIBLE, MY KINDLE AND I. I was in the throes of that final packing spree for a month abroad. We all know books weigh a ton. Even paperbacks. Decisions had to be made. I narrowed it down to one devotional and one Bible. Still heavy stuff. “Why not buy a Bible for...
CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD It was the day before we were due to leave for a month abroad. I lay in bed. Wide awake. Too early to get up And agonized. Did I pack enough? (Ehhh….) Did I pack too much? (Probably.) Did I pack the right stuff? (No.) Did I pack the...
REQUIRED INGREDIENTS I love to bake. Note well, I said bake. I do not like to cook. That’s the Captain’s job. But baking? Ahh – the fun in getting out the ingredients. Lining them up. Following the recipe. Creating that gorgeous cake, or trays of cookies or my...
FAILED EXPERIMENTS AND MORE I used to be good at that. Experimenting, that is. Cooking – my share of experiments included exploding cans of condensed milk. Knitting – ah, the joy of missing a crucial instruction and starting over again. Clothes – buying a size too...
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