I’ve blogged about my clematis before, but I wonder if I’m the right one to raise clematis. Clematis defies me and exasperates me. I like things neat, orderly, and predictable. Clematis is messy. In fact, clematis is disorder personified and wild in the truest sense of the word. The shoots grow fast and in every [...]
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” ~I Corinthians 13:12 Today is Palm Sunday for Christians. I have always felt that Palm Sunday was an oxymoronic day. On one hand [...]
Part of my most recent blogging hiatus can be blamed on Plurk, a social microblogging site I discovered in December of 2008. Though I haven’t stayed up ’til all hours – or even all night – chatting like I did when I discovered my first online community in college in 1990, I have met many [...]
Today’s post is an amazing story that shouldn’t be so amazing. I first read this story here on the Balancing Motherhood blog. The story in a nutshell: Western Oregon college senior Sara Tucholsky had never hit a home run in her 4 year softball career. Now her team was playing in the NCAA Division II [...]
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