This past weekend hubby and I worked out in the forest digging up invasive Himalayan blackberries. Winter is the best time to do such a thing because the forest has gone to sleep. All the groundcover plants have…
Here you can see Grays Harbor Lighthouse. This is the same lighthouse which was featured in the last blog post. When it was first built, Grays Harbor Lighthouse was only 400 feet from the shoreline. However, over time,…
I have been baking gluten-free, sugar-free Pumpkin Chocolate-chip muffins for my daughter today (using dates in the place of sugar and sugar-free chocolate-chips). Naturally, I have been thinking about nutrition. We all know that nuts and seeds are…
Yesterday protestors showed up outside of where my son works. They clogged the street corners at the bus stop, yelling at and heckling people as they got off the bus to go to work. The protestors took up…
Back when I was a young mom, I struggled a lot with guilt over not being able to serve God as much at my church as I felt like I was “supposed” to. There were always needs for…
Here you can see West Point Lighthouse. It is basically (almost) in downtown Seattle, being located on a point of land at the northern entrance to Elliott Bay. I chose to use this particular lighthouse (representing my city)…
Probably the most well-known passage on love in the Bible is in Paul’s letter to the people of Corinth – the entire chapter of 1 Corinthians 13. In teaching the people of Corinth about love, what is the…
Here you can see the pumpkins which I wrote about in the last blog post. The purpose of growing pumpkins is so that the pumpkins will be a “blessing” to me … meaning, I can use them to…
The month of October ushers in the season of pumpkins. Pumpkin-spice lattes appear at all the coffee shops! Pumpkin-spice candles are in all the stores. Pumpkins of every size spill out of large bins in front of grocery…
The city in which hubby and I live is a cultural crossroads. Whenever we go shopping at Costco it is common to hear all kinds of different languages being spoken by everyone around us. People of all different…