Well, two extra special spots of tea, because tea drinking is a very regular occurrence around here. In fact, one of the things I hold dear and look forward to each morning is making a pot of Tazo Awake tea and sharing it with Robert as the day is getting started. Recently, though, I’ve had… Read More A Spot of Tea…Times Two
Last Saturday morning while we were all eating breakfast, the grownups lingering at the kitchen table and over the local paper for a few moments before the day’s list of activities would begin, Robert came across a small advertisement. It announced a talk and book signing at Mt. Holyoke College by someone who has been… Read More Kayla Meets a Hero
Actually, he ran for the Senate, but I can’t resist alliteration. He did not win a seat in the Senate, though, probably because he did not make cool campaign cards or purchase doughnuts for the voters. I don’t think he was very heartbroken over the loss, but he certainly looks stately ~ don’t you think?… Read More Congressman Kory
This was the fondue version of his birthday on Easter Sunday ~ thanks McCullahs! Two weeks ago I had the joy and privilege of speaking at a youth girls retreat. When I was introduced, Abby, the director, asked the girls if they knew who I was. Robert has typically been the camp pastor at… Read More Beiber, errr….Cooper Turns 14!
“…ask what you can do for your country.” I was asked to use that line in a short speech I gave at my middle school Honor Society Induction Ceremony ~ oh, nearly 30 years ago now. I knew it had been spoken by John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address, and that he was the… Read More “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You…”
Plato: Rhetoric is “the art of winning the soul by discourse.” Aristotle: Rhetoric is “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion. Cicero: “Rhetoric is one great art comprised of five lesser arts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronunciatio.” Rhetoric is “speech designed to … Read More Rhetoric in the Rough
I hardly ever remember TV shows or movies. I enjoy them while watching, but I don’t store them away like my husband and so many others I know. My brain is too full of other important things like ~ What should I wear today? When are baseball tryouts? I have a son taking driver’s Ed.… Read More Growing Pains: Gratitude for the Whoa and Wow of the Cross
At the breakfast table this morning….Cooper (age 13 ~ 14 in April) has already started to work on his pre-Algebra assignment for the day… evidently a pretty grueling one. Robert: What award was Sandra Bullock up for last night? Me: I don’t think she was up for an award ~ just a spectator/presenter at the… Read More Early Retirement?
Just wanted to give another room remodel update for a few of you who have asked about it. It wasn’t so easy to get good clear pictures, as the room just sort of GLOWS PINK now, but you get the idea! We’re about finished, and I’ve been so blessed by how the Lord has provided… Read More Too Pink For Pics
…but not as much as we had hoped, which trains Kayla in (and reminds me of) a basic tenet of home improvement: all projects always take much longer than you think. Kayla sent my sister a photo text message of the wall to show her our progress. The response she got said: “CUTE!!! Some of… Read More Some Progress…