A few years ago I stumbled across a unique restaurant in Fenton, Michigan called “The French Laundry.” One morning I took Lois there. We sat and watched what people ordered. The waiter walked past the table one morning with a waffle the size of a small state piled with a mountain of fresh strawberries and […]
Spring Watch
Lois invited me on a walk last night. I’m glad I went. It’s a lot less punishing than the game of “21” the boys and Hope were putting me through in the driveway. After months of pale winter the neighborhood finally has some color in it’s cheeks. There are scores of flowering ornamentals in our […]
Spring at Granville Cottage
We moved into the Granville Cottage just as the last leaf fell from the trees. I have to count again to make sure, but I think we have nine trees in our yard. There are a number of shrubs and bushes. Now that spring is here we’ve had some happy surprises around the cottage. A […]
Left Behind
One night the older girls went out on their in-line skates and left little Hope behind because she can’t keep up. Usually they take her almost everywhere they go so it is hard for her to be left behind. She told me about it with a little catch in her voice so I knew it […]
Quiet Kindness
This week, while I was doing some pastoral calling. Everywhere I went I heard unsolicited reports of kind deeds, acts of mercy, and good works, done by someone in the church for others. Potato soup for shut-ins, auto repairs for widows, help for young mothers, and visits to those who are sick. I could write […]
Licking County Farm
I have about 75 pages of a book nestled in the electronic archive of my notebook computer. It is a book about my grandfather’s farm. Here is a fairly current view of the farm, now no longer owned by the family. If you know what to look for you can actually see in the satellite […]
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