Our Prayer Bowl

I have had a decorative glass bowl in our living room for a long time.  It has been an empty vessel for many of these years.  It was simply used to grace our home, adding some color to the room. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but I do know why we began to…

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Blessing of a Kitchen

Writing always starts with a desire for knowledge about a subject, and then the need to share it with others. At least that is why I enjoy writing! I chuckle now when I think that my first idea for this blog was to write about the history of kitchens in America.  In my research, I…

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A New Kind of New Year’s Resolutions

How many years have we made our resolutions, well-meaning though they may be, only to break them, to forget them, to let them slip away from our minds, or just rebelliously change our minds, to change at all? This year I’ve got a great idea. Why don’t we try making some new kinds of resolutions…

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Tower of Stones

Traveling, when we were still able to, we would notice these curious stacked stone towers whenever our visits took us near oceans, rivers, or mountains with their beautiful vistas. I’ve wondered, what are people trying to say when they stack those stones? Are they saying, ” I was here, too”, or “I want to be…

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Who’s Holding You Up?

There came a moment in my adult life when I began to realize that something was missing. I had spent many years living with excuses for why I could not accomplish what I myself wanted to do, and who I myself longed to be. I wondered so many times, why all the areas of my life were…

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