Just wanted to let you know of a review that Gluten Free Chef and Author, Tina Turbin, did of my book today on her site. You can read the review here. And by the way, the book is doing pretty well, especially considering that I do absolutely NO marketing of it! I should, I know,… Read More A Nice Review of My Book…
…is happening around here! A few scenes from the past two Sundays…. And gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard from Me; for John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many… Read More What The Father Has Promised…
Forgot to tell you about what else we got at our farm last week besides green beans and watermelon. In the farm shop, there was a father who, along with his children, were selling Monarch butterfly chyrsalides. (I looked it up. The plural can be either chyrsalises or chrysalides.) They had them all dated and… Read More New Life Beauty ~ Migration Envy
Every year at this time, I enter into some sort of “season denial.” I look away when I catch a glimpse of the apples in the local orchards going from green to red. I ignore the blush of orange and red on each sugar maple I pass. And the squash and pumpkins out in the… Read More Summer Wrap Up
Another great cookbook jumped off the shelf and into my arms at the library recently. This one is called Great Gluten Free Baking by Louise Blair. Can you guess where she’s from by her name? She’s a food stylist and home economist in the United Kingdom. Her gluten free cookbook is just FULL of wonderful… Read More Two for One: Beet Speckled Cake & Ham and Cheese Muffins
(Since I had just finished reading the book, and had no idea there was an upcoming movie, it felt like the movie was made just for my personal entertainment – literally two weeks after finishing the book! My kids, of course, knew there was a movie coming out. “Silly Mom, let me show you the… Read More Eat, Pray, Love – My Take (My Very Long Take)
Kayla, my ten year old, and I have a little spiral notebook tug-of war going on especially on Sunday mornings. I always have a small spiral notebook in my purse – mostly for my menu planning and grocery lists, but also for those occasions when I need to jot down a phone number or email… Read More Spiral Sermon Interpretation
Yesterday was a gorgeous here – about 75 degrees, clear and sunny. (Sorry Texas, Oklahoma, & California.) Robert decided to join me in an early trip to the farm to pick up our weekly share. Good thing he did, or else I would have been there twice as long picking beans. Most things are already… Read More Saturday Love, Veggie Love, Cindy Love
(image from World Community Cookbook) Evidently there are some strong opinions about kale out there. When I posted on Facebook that my children accused me of child abuse when I served it with dinner, some sent their sympathies – to the kids, that is, while others sent the health benefits and their favorite recipes! My… Read More Speaking of Kale…
shrew noun [C] OLD-FASHIONED DISAPPROVING an unpleasant woman who is angry and easily annoyed That was what I was close to becoming after borrowing a tiller, raking some manure-enhanced soil into the ground, buying and carefully planting lots of vegetable starts, and erecting the garden fence, only to find a few days later that everything… Read More Taming of the Shrew