I rarely make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without thinking about my grandmother’s turkey story and it still makes me laugh. I posted it on my blog five years ago but I decided it deserved a little encore presentation as a special bonus blog this week. Warning: if you are inclined towards being a vegetarian…
Archives for November 2013
Nancy’s White Chicken Chili
I decided today it was time for a little fun. And what’s more fun than a new yummy recipe and an amusing story mixed together? Many years ago shortly after we remodeled our kitchen my girlfriend came to visit. She LOVES to organize and is very good at it so she was helping me get…
Does Cancer Make People Jerks?
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in my blog that we were walking through some “hard eucharisteo” at our house; a time where giving thanks seems a little bit more challenging. On October 23 we heard the news that my husband, John, has all the indicators of Multiple Myeloma – a cancer of the…
The Invitation
I had the opportunity to spend this past weekend at an event hosted by Patsy Clairmont, one of my favorite Women of Faith Speakers. She spoke on creativity and on how there is more in us than we even know. On Saturday night she gave us an assignment to pick a picture on our camera…
1000 Gifts and More
I just finished reading Ann Voskamp’s book 1000 Gifts. Occasionally, I just get a sense that I am supposed to read a book and that’s how it was for me with this one. I kept hearing about it again and again. And now that I’m done, I can say that I know, beyond a shadow…