Did you know there’s a National Day for just about everything under the sun? I didn’t either until my friend Judi started emailing them to our Bible Study every Monday. We renamed this weekly list of trivia Funday and looked forward to it. I thought I’d share how Funday works. May 24th is National Brother’s […]
Wrapped in Love: The Family Quilt
Family quilts hold special meaning, often because they were made by loved ones and handed down through the years. Although I don’t have the skill or equipment to create a genuinely quilted heirloom, I have wanted to sew quilts for each of our grandchildren. I decided high school graduation was the perfect occasion since I […]
Book Reviews: The Children’s Blizzard and Eleanore Oliphant is Completely Fine
I’ve been hearing good things about The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin and since I love historical fiction, it was a natural choice for me to read. Based on the Jan 12, 1888 blizzard in Nebraska and the Dakota Territory, Ms Benjamin created the characters caught up in this tragic true life event. The fast […]
Remembering the Civil War on Memorial Day
“Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.” General John A. Logan 1868 Memorial Day, the day we honor fallen service members, traces its roots back to the Civil War. Southern […]