I generally try to keep reflections on my blog broad enough to retain the interest of a wide range of potential readers. While this is a three-part series, this first part is one that will primarily be of interest to Seventh-day Adventists, the community of faith of which I am […]
Last Sabbath, the theme of the day was definitely the second coming. The Sabbath School quarterly focused on it. Then the sermon centered on it as well. That afternoon, we couldn’t stop talking about it. And one of the main questions that kept resurfacing was, if we really believe the […]
When relaying the story of how I burned my nose, I mentioned that I was salvaging some vegetables. What I didn’t explain was that I had to come up with several recipes on the fly to salvage a whole bunch of fruit and veggies. My family had been on a […]
When I visited Cuba three and a half years ago, I observed up close, for the first time, what a closed society looks like. Where there is no freedom of press, where all the news and billboards were nothing but propaganda. Though the United States does not always live up […]
Today I’m adding to my pile something I did not anticipate that I would throw out. A bookshelf. As part of project deClutter, I purchased a filing cabinet, the assembly of which is a whole other story in and of it self (and probably the next thing I’ll write about […]
Weeding out my clothes is something I do quite regularly, surprising for someone who hangs on to things as long as I do. Somehow, I got into the habit of sorting through which clothes I wear and which I don’t, and making a pile to take to Dorcas or Goodwill, […]
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