Posts from ‘April, 2011’

By Lisa Shoreland Sometimes delight just comes right into the inbox, and such is the case of my guest writer for today. Lisa Shoreland was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan and is fluent in English and Japanese.  She came to the USA to attend St. Andrews Presbyterian College and studied creative writing, history, politics [...]

I have a hand woven flour storage basket.  It has never held flour of any kind, rather I keep it on my desk and undo the hook and latch to drop quotes in that I find pleasing.  When I need a bit of a push with my thinking, I open the lid and reach within [...]

This is a loving story of a “normal” family who experienced the loss of the Mother and Wife to colon cancer.  It is a story about their growing and parented years, it is the story about the years of sickness and the family’s responses and actions, and is introspective of that which a daughter understands [...]

Zip had a bit of surgery this week and came home on April Fool’s Day with an Elizabethan Collar and a “drunken sailor” swagger.  The collar is a plastic cone that goes around his head and keeps him from scratching or licking the tender spots.  It took a bit of effort to re- master going [...]