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 …
Memories have it, Part 1
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 …
To-ing and fro-ing
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 …
Keep me reasonably sweet
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 …
In the palm of your hand
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, …
Destinations: Ontario, Michigan, Indiana
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 …
Summer fest presented with panache
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, …
Blueberry Pie and Christmas in July: a sweet summer tradition
POST 24/2025 GOSHEN INDIANA: Blueberry season has started. I searched among our cookbooks--those left after multiple purges in recent years--and found only two recipes for blueberry pie. One of the recipes called for 4 cups fresh berries, 3 T. flour, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup sugar, 1/8 tsp. salt. I wanted to prepare an open-face …
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Life in and beyond LaGrange county
POST 23/2025 LAGRANGE COUNTY IN: Fast growing corn, haying with horses, scampering rabbits, an ostrich, neat gardens, Amish traveling in buggies and bikes, fireworks display, the early morning song of the Cardinal (Indiana's state bird)--that's what we saw and heard in the county next door last week. A baler that makes big round bales. The …
Love and loss
Post 22/2025 Goshen, Indiana: In the introduction to The Book of Joy, (Avery, 2016), by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams, Abrams notes, "In this book I have tried to share with you their intimate conversations, which were filled with seemingly endless laughter and punctuated by many poignant moments of …
It's About Now 