For nearly thirty years, I would start praying around the first of November that God would provide the right weather for our college students (we both worked in the education world) to get home, first for Thanksgiving, then for Christmas. To be honest, once I got them home (well, God and me and you too)…Read more Tiny Houses Do Not Equal Tiny Prayers
Christmas Traditions in Bradford County …or Ireland
My mother, Towanda born and bred, was happy if she got an orange for Christmas. A rare treat, it was. And she told me about a very fine pen she got one Christmas when she was older. She lost her mother when she was eight, so I think that colored her Christmases. Beyond the gifts…Read more Christmas Traditions in Bradford County …or Ireland
A Welcome to Bradford County in a Basket
As some of you know, my husband just signed on as interim pastor at Windham Summit Bible Church. One of my children asked me if this meant we were moving back to Bradford County, and though I said no, I also said that we couldn’t know this minute. I kind of feel like we got…Read more A Welcome to Bradford County in a Basket
Happy Thanksgiving
For over a month I have been consumed by the story of my great-great-grandparents who emigrated from Ireland during the Great Famine to Bradford County. The more I research those years in Tipperary, where they came from, the more I am challenged by their faith. You see, they were Catholic. During a time when the…Read more Happy Thanksgiving
It’s Just a Tiny House, after all!
But how many small things, or tiny things have changed your life? It was just a backyard 5-Day Club. Five summer days. In a living room. No more than ten hours total. A blip in a life time. But that 5-Day Club changed my life. A veteran of Sunday…Read more It’s Just a Tiny House, after all!
Muscle Memory and Road Trips
Sunday morning we headed out on a familiar path up Route 6 through Tunkhannock, Laceyville, Meshoppen, and Wyalusing to Wysox where we made a right turn. To those who know well the area, that sharp right turn was in front of the old Poillet mansion and will lead you through Rome and on to Nichols.…Read more Muscle Memory and Road Trips
Like my dad!
Did you ever watch a long line of dominoes fall? You tap the first in the line, even if they stretch across the table or the floor in a circle or squiggly letter S, and the same thing happens. The first one leans back until it kisses the one behind it and that one leans…Read more Like my dad!
Tiny Houses and My Irish Company
We only had about 240 square feet of floor space in the tiny house, not counting the two sleeping lofts. Fortunately for our old bones, this tiny house had a bedroom to which we did not have to climb. Anyway, it was cozy and we loved it. But as I think of it now, the…Read more Tiny Houses and My Irish Company
Six Things and a Tiny House
Could it be five years ago that I started it, every day choosing six books from the overflowing shelves in my office, six books to put on the table just outside of my office, six books to go to new homes, every day. Yes, five years and a month or so ago, I recognized that…Read more Six Things and a Tiny House
To Bradford County and Beyond!!
The last time we drove out this way, I was so enchanted with everything that I was seeing, and getting it down on paper, that I did not take one picture. Today was different, especially since we knew the leaves hit their peak color yesterday! Cause we saw the difference today. Did you ever see apples…Read more To Bradford County and Beyond!!
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