One of the people I most admire–a writing mentor about the age of my parents–recently lost her strong young-man son. My heart goes out to her. Life is so full of surprises. Not all of them are bad. But some of them are very hard indeed. “Hold your life with an open hand,” a beautiful […]
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End of August, there was a baptism. Blue skies in September. A family portrait against the windmill on top of the mountain. Harvest bounty. Not from my garden, which makes it easier. :) And a little boy who always wants to be involved. A Sunday evening with “Grandpa Bob” and “Grandma Ruth,” our adopted grandparents
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For over a month now, I’ve been writing down snippets of things I want to tell you, so this update will be random and long and interspersed with pictures of life here on the farm (that we no longer farm much, since Ivan is into storage buildings and we rent most of our farmland out).
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Which title is supposed to be a clever pun for my made-in-May update. I am sitting at the kitchen table to write this while the children take their afternoon naps. My hair is loose down my back–a pleasantly relaxed feeling for someone who usually wears it up. I am wrapped in two sweaters and a
Hello readers, Well over a year ago, in December 2023, I began a blog post like this: “Many of the best gifts in my life have been unexpected, and Theodore Jonas Kinsinger, born November 7, 2023, was no exception. He weighed in at 4 lbs 3 oz, was 16 inches long, and arrived almost 8
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