I’m home from another sacred journey north. I traveled alone and listened to Marylynne Robinsons beautiful novel Lila as I left the snowy northern tip of the lower peninsula. Aided by a gigantic diet Mountain Dew, I’m now safe and warm in my corner of the living room on Bittersweet Farm, feet up on the […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 33) Tommy Minton’s Shirt
Howling in the Trees You will read the Bittersweet Journal sometime after 5 a.m. on Monday morning. That is when I send it every week, but I’m writing it on Sunday night up in the cozy corner of my writing loft. Our old farmhouse is very tight, warm, cozy, and comfortable tonight, but the wind […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 32) Snow Day
Snow Day on Bittersweet Farm This week was one of the most productive writing weeks of my life. Wednesday was a snow day. We closed the church office and I did not leave Bittersweet Farm all day. I glued myself in the chair up in the corner of my writing loft early in the morning […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 31)
Last Tuesday I gave the eulogy at the memorial service of Charles Perlos. The church was packed, every seat into the overflow. Charles is the man who renovated Bittersweet Farm, took it off the market, and saved it for us, and held my $1,000.00 down payment check until closing so we could have the place. […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 30)
Last week was an unusual week in our neck of the woods. It was bizarre-cold here on Bittersweet Farm but inside we were safe, warm, cozy and secure. I would like to have accomplished more, but sometimes the Lord just slows the world down and that’s alright. Projects Up-Coming I will be working on some […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 29) When “Love” Isn’t Loving.
Friday night and Saturday I completed a project that has been on my heart for a year. I assembled bookcases to house my most treasured books from my favorite authors on the stairwell landing on the second floor of the little farmhouse on Bittersweet. Just outside the door to the room where I write I […]