I first made the acquaintance of Alice Van Leer Carrick many years ago by way of a fat, red book of Christmas stories. Though delighted by most, I was completely enchanted with the one entitled simply Christmas in Our Town. In her treasured reminiscences of a New England holiday over eighty years ago I found […]
I can’t WAIT to see this movie!
Even the trailer brings tears to my eyes.
My sister saw this documentary-style film in New York and wept all the way through it–she said that it made her want to paint ballerinas, which I think would be great considering her ballet background and her art career! She told […]
I simply cannot believe that my little sister is celebrating her first anniversary of marriage today! Sometimes it seems like we should still be playing with our dolls and having picnics by the creek…
Here’s a little story that I wrote when she was on her honeymoon last year.
At the Young Ladies Christian Fellowship you can see who I’ve had the honor and delight of entertaining in my home this week…We’ve been so busy talking for three days straight that I’ve not had time to post! :) What a blessing from the Lord Natalie has been to me–I simply have no words. And […]
I wanted to show you a lovely present given to me by one of my dear girlfriends, and which has brightened my home through the holidays and beyond. Back in November she came up my front steps with a huge florist’s box all wrapped in craft paper and decorated with dried ferns. To my mystified […]
My sister-in-law’s post on food writing so inspired me this morning that I thought I’d just sit down and tell you what I’m fixing for dinner tonight, as it’s one of my all-time favorite meals. This recipe is Comfort Food, pure and simple, which is what my hearth-loving soul craves in winter. I love to […]
Is there any more delicious treat than a mailbox stuffed with a manilla envelope containing a much-awaited book? As a little Christmas present to myself this year I located four of the published volumes of a new favorite author, Alice Van Leer Carrick, and ordered them all from abe. At 3 to 6 dollars a […]
That’s what a friend’s grandmother calls this sad post-Christmas season. I couldn’t agree more. For the past several years I have looked forward to January as season of self-imposed quietness, of dormancy and rest. I have required little of myself, and indulged in gentle, thoughtful pursuits that allow me to enjoy the coziness of my […]
“For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righeousness, those that remember thee in thy ways…" Isaiah 64: 4
I know […]