When Fear Gets in the Way

This morning in Jeff Goins’ blog post, his guest writer, Anne Peterson, poet, author and speaker, wrote about how people offer up excuses to get out of doing things, and avoid failure. Her mother sounds just like mine. In fact, … Continue reading →

Winter Fun at Steckle Heritage Farm

Today is Family Day in Ontario and several other provinces of Canada. Steckle Heritage Farm, a heritage farm within Kitchener city limits, hosted a day for families to have fun and spend time together. I’ll tell this story from a … Continue reading →

Teachable Moment

The daily prompt from WordPress: You have to learn a new skill.Do you prefer to read about it, watch someone else do it, hear someone else describe it, or try it yourself. As much as I enjoy reading about something … Continue reading →

Always more to learn

Today, in writing class, I taught a lesson on using word processing programs. True, it wasn’t a usual session, but I was finding that members had varying comfort levels using a computer. After all, our generation has not grown up … Continue reading →

In the Stillness

This morning I awoke with a particular verse from Scriptures going around in my mind. In the quiet, I lay there thinking about it. The verse (11) comes from I Corinthians in what is often called the Love chapter. Here … Continue reading →