I remember the VHS machine perched on top of our oak TV stand whirring to life; chunk-clunk the tape slid in and the movie started. Three littles were bundled into warm blankets with favorite teddy bears wedged all around them on the couch, the cord from the hanging lamp snaking …
Thistles for 2024
I’ve been wanting to share this story with you for a long time and the start of a new year is probably the right moment. In August I was walking along the path that leads to the back of the farm and was in a hurry. I tripped over a …
Alabaster Jars
Her obituary read like many others; a picture of her at the top and underneath a listing of family members left to mourn her loss, names of other family members who had passed on before her and of course her birth date and date of death separated only with a …