POST 2/2026 CARBIS BAY, CORNWALL UK--Cold temperatures bookend home in the US to "home from home" in the UK. We've traded snow and wind for rain and wind, all nature's elements to be reckoned with, this year in their overabundance. Elements aside, it's good to be here. Arriving in London. The Paddington Bear family also …
POST1/2026 GOSHEN IN--Hopes lie ahead for this new year. One hope for me already has been fulfilled. I just had help to get our tablet computer running with improved memory. How freeing is that? Enough to have me smiling about packing off to Cornwall soon, flight to London and then a five-hour train ride to …
POST 32/2025 GOSHEN IN: Miles later, we're back home. It has been a bit more than a week since we returned from a splendiferous time with friends in California. The time was grand. Walks were wonderful. Food, festive. Events engaging. Travel smooth. The weather was so unlike winter here that we've stayed in more than …
POST 31/2025 GOSHEN IN: Short, sweet, holding. My last post was September 29. The interval will continue for a month or so. Computer matters to deal with. Travel. Reading. Puzzles. Lots to talk about when I get back to a more predictable routine. In the meantime, I'm doing fine. Embracing seasonal change. Trying to change …
POST 30/2025 GOSHEN IN: Brown County State Park biennially over 22 years served up autumn delights for Marty and me in the company of our niece and her husband and their two children. Rustic cabin. No phone or internet. Footpaths. Wildlife. Favorite meals (some out). Games (especially Pictionary). Wood burner. Fall colors. Day visits to …
POST 29/2025 GENEVA INDIANA: Limberlost. Loblolly. Gene Stratton-Porter. We were driving from our Bed No Breakfast lodging in Berne enroute to a Poetry Workshop at Loblolly Marsh and got slightly lost to-ing and fro-ing around a detour on gravel roads to Loblolly, part of the Limberlost Conservation Area Nature Preserves. Our niece Shari Wagner led …
POST 28/2025 SOUTH HAVEN & PERRIN LAKE, MICHIGAN: "I'm going to fly my kite," I told a barber in South Haven a few years ago when he asked me what I was going to do next. I did it again last week, not the haircut, just flew our fifty-year-old kite. Sprite by name. We picked …
POST 27/2025: I have a bookmark titled, In The Palm of Your Hand." It quotes the Old Testament book of Isaiah, 49:15: "I will not forget you . . . I have held you in the palm of my hand." The image of being held in God's palm makes me think of my brother-in-law, Gerald, …
POS 26/2025 TAWAS CITY, MICHIGAN: We're spending a few days along Lake Huron in Tawas City after. visiting family and friends in southwestern Ontario. More family reunion time awaits this weekend at home in Indiana. Time spent with family and friends nourishes what experts might call "relationship health." Ontario With family and friends we shared …
POST 25/2025 GOSHEN IN: It was a doozy of a week, hot days followed by a welcome downpour bookending Greencroft Goshen Summerfest 2025. Shade, breeze, sunhats and water kept us tolerably comfortable for Summerfest, July 15. Resident volunteers, in tandem with Greencroft staff and off-campus participants, presented the third Summerfest with, what better word than, …
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