It’s my favorite time of the year! There’s a promise of cooler weather in the air, and the stores are beginning to smell like cinnamon and cloves. The whole season puts me in the mood to spend time in the kitchen and the garden. This fall is a little different…
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A Month of Vegan
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A Toad Story
A few weeks ago, my first granddaughter made her debut in the world. She is a few months early, so she is spending quality time in an incubator at our local hospital! It’s been an exciting time of fellowship with my oldest son and his wife while they camp out…
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Summer Sketches
Mississippi students just started back to school, but I still consider August to be summer. Temps have dipped into the 60s a few nights here lately, but that’s not fall, y’all. A few months ago, I decided to enroll in an online drawing course by Ian Roberts. He’s an artist…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 7 & 8
Day 7 My daughter and Hubby have problems sometimes with altitude and motion. Our next big thing was the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. I was able to procure engineer’s row seats for three of us. Hubby insisted that my mom, Liz, and I take those seats although I’d purchased them…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 5 & 6
Day 5 Monday morning was dedicated to the thing that brought us to Colorado Springs—Focus on the Family! My daughter has wanted to visit the headquarters, which houses a fabulous bookstore and “Whit’s End,” the setting of Adventures in Odyssey, one of her all-time favorite broadcasts. We spent several hours…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 3 & 4
Day 3 We decided to start the day exploring the Manitou Cliff Dwellings in nearby Manitou Springs. Visitors can climb all through the well-preserved cliff dwellings and spend hours in the multi-story gift shop. After a tasty lunch at Mediterranean Café in downtown Colorado Springs, we shopped the local spots…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 1 & 2
Day 1 We’d found two rooms at the Westin, Denver Airport. After a delicious breakfast at the Fig & Olive, hubby obtained our rental van, and off we went to explore every independent bookstore in Denver for book-loving daughter. We ended up at Union Station’s Tattered Cover. By then, we…
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Colorado Senior Trip
A few weeks ago, our baby girl’s graduation trip (a gift from my mom) started out a little rocky, pun intended. “Arthur,” the first tropical storm of 2026, began threatening our plans to fly to Denver Thursday morning on Wednesday. I was walking out the door to go to Bible…
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Sip & Paint 101
Last weekend, I had the honor of putting together a Paint & Sip class for a ladies’ retreat for my church, First Pentecostal Church of Jackson (Mississippi). Seventy ladies attended! The theme was “Bloom Where You are Planted.” I found free adult coloring pages online and selected three—a simple design…
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A Treasure Hunt
Charging down the hallway, one little fellow excitedly volunteered his assessment of our Treasure Hunt: “It’s better than a video game!” Our Bible Quiz season is coming to a climax with State Finals this Saturday, an event that will determine if we continue quizzing until Nationals in Branson the middle…
