The View From My Loft Window

 Winter can be confining to body and spirit, if permitted.  A daily dose of the view from the loft window refreshes my outlook as it expands the boundaries of my inside world.  Blue sky and distant vistas are like a breath of fresh air, mentally and physically. Long winter days are what we make of them.  Yesterday, we grabbed a [...]

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Treasure in Flax

I know little of my great-great-grandmother Rhoda Johnson Coleman.   But one possession that has come down to me provides a tantalizing glimpse  of her.  She wove by hand the antique counterpane coverlet above in Cady, Ohio, in 1837.  That puts the age of the coverlet at one hundred seventy-five years.  Although the edges show wear, the [...]

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FIRST SNOW

The first snow of the season is falling on Central Illinois.  The farmstead finally sleeps under a downy comforter, feeding my solitude and causing the winter wheat to rejoice.  The snow sanctions the calender and resets my internal clock.   Apple trees stand starkly on their white canvas garden, like a vintage black and white photograph. [...]

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Welcoming the Expected and Unexpected New Year

 It’s interesting to read forecasts for the new year.  I’m predicting it will be what I make of it and how I discern it.  More sensational predictions than usual surround the winter solstice, December 21, 2012.  I’m screening all information through the truth template of the Bible.    No second guessing necessary.   I’m grateful for principle guidelines.  So many have none.  I’ll be [...]

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PROJECTS FOR 2012

  Two manuscripts currently clog my WORD file.  I need to divest myself of one or both in year 2012 but am torn as to which project to undertake first.  Whichever I tackle, it promises to consume me.     INVISIBLE  is the fourth book in the Door County fiction series.  This  manuscript has been tweaked past the point of re-write and [...]

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