Category: Blog
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The Little Things that Matter
The little things that we do, with love and kindness, make a difference.
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May Reading đź“– Recommendations
May was a month of hits and misses but I also managed to find a few fantastic reads!
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Back to Normal or Not?
Spring brings reminders that life continually moves along. And while COVID is still a threat, society is s l o w l y beginning to reopen and move along. There is much “talk” [sadly, often in the form of angry shouting matches on social media] of getting “back to normal.” When we mean mitigating the…
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Happy Birthday, to my Favorite Botanical Garden
Today is the 200th “birthday” of the U.S. Botanical Garden! As this blog can attest, nature and flowers are one of my favorite things in life. Whenever I’m traveling, I love to seek out beauty in the local botanical garden. I’ve visited some stunning ones—including two of the oldest in the world! (Pisa, Italy, #1…
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Den Haag
I knew very little about The Hague (or Den Haag in Dutch) until just a few months ago. I may have even just thought it was a building and not a city…! Enter my amazing sister Michelle, who is a super smart DNA scientist. In late June, she accepted a job with the International Commission…
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The Fullness of Time
Merry Christmas! I’m thinking of my time in Israel today. Â I neglect this blog far too much, and have not even found time to write about my incredible trip to the Holy Land, but here are some pictures from Bethlehem, where our Creator, Lord, and Savior came to this earth, in the flesh, as a…
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For One Cup of Coffee a Day…
You can change the life of one child. Her name is Mariam. Precious Mariam is nearly 5. She lives with her large family in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world, and one with high risk for child rights violations. Would you consider sponsoring Marian through Compassion International? Your small monthly gift will…
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Morning Majesty
This week I have to remind myself of the old adage, “April showers bring May flowers” – it’s already been raining for two days straight and is supposed to continue all week. We’ve gotten a taste of spring, and yet today it’s been feeling like winter again! Since I was stuck indoors tonight, it was…
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Virginia's Presidential Trail
My historical/political-love tank got filled to last for a long time this weekend – I was able to visit homes of 4 of the first 5 U.S. Presidents and Founding Fathers. It’s amazing that they’re all so close – Charlottesville is only about a 2 hour drive from D.C, and of course Mt. Vernon is…
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Advent Now and 'Till He Returns
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.” – Micah 5:2 I’m not an Old Testament scholar, but from what I understand, 400+ years transpired between the…