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Hello readers! I feel like I have said this, or made similar announcements, several times over the years since I've begun blogging, created new blogs for new epochs of my life, moved from one platform to another, etc. I wrote a few weeks ago how this February marks my 11th year of blogging...which seems crazy,…

Old Friends in New Frontiers

On Friday morning we awoke to snow, a sweet surprise. I pulled myself out of bed but kept quiet to let Anthony sleep, because I knew he'd struggled all night to get any rest, thanks to a bad head cold. I was struggling myself, but at least I had slept. I quickly pulled on leggings…

Give me a task to DO

"I need a task to do, someone give me a task to do!" ~ Jo March February. The time of year when 90 percent of journal entries surround the impatience we feel to be outside in the dirt, coaxing food from the soil and putting our muscles to work. My muscles are longing to be used. Sometimes I feel…

An Historical Account

It has been ELEVEN YEARS since I began blogging. Nearly half of my life has been spent partly writing to strangers and friends on the internet. It was late in February, which is a time known for birthing wild ideas. I was a bright-eyed, overly romantic 14-year-old, and naturally I felt I had things to SAY. Really, most…

New Years’ & Waiting & Mopping.

1/10/24 It's late evening after supper, and I'm waiting for my husband to come home. He's still in the shop, fixing things -- his new hobby. My hand reaches for my phone frequently, and I'm hoping to feel the telltale buzz of it in my grasp, because I'm waiting to hear what they've named my sister's…

Sentimentality and Lord of the Rings

It is rather funny to me that *I* would be writing anything about the Lord of the Rings. After all, *I* was never the one with the posters on my bedroom wall, the watch parties, the books committed to memory, the one who wrote my name in Elvish on birthday cards. (I know there are…

Marmee is coming.

Have you ever watched that YouTube video, "Company's Coming", where the guy is frantically running around the house trying to make everything ready for company? I have. Probably two dozen times since 2016, and it still makes me laugh. The reason it's so funny is because everybody knows they, too, have acted so ridiculously. This…

Is it spring yet?

Every year in the fall I think to myself, there is nothing more beautiful than this. And then I take my words back as soon as the first seed catalog comes in the mail in late January. Even the mere idea of spring, so vital in getting through these gray months of late winter, is…

Why I wear mainly skirts.

Is it for modesty? Is it for comfort? Is it because most of my jeans have been stained from working on a farm and I don't feel like buying new ones? Religious reasons? Just to be different? Honestly, all of these things are part of the reason. I don't wear skirts 100% of the time,…

More and Less

...What I mean to say is, this is more or less a new year's journal entry. And only a week into the new year! Aren't you proud of me for my promptness? Everybody does their share of reflection as the old year falls away like a dead skin, and we get to put on the…