Archive for the 'From Me' Category



The Minister’s Wife

A few years back I wrote a newsletter called The Minister’s Wife, and it was mailed to a handful of wives of pastors around the country, mostly in the CREC. But I got side-tracked and it didn’t last very long. I’m thinking of resurrecting it as an email newsletter to those pastors’ wives out there […]

In Praise of Peanut Butter

My kids grew up on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, pretty much every day of their lives between the ages of two and twelve, and maybe longer. Their father before them ate peanut butter and brown sugar sandwiches. And not just a little brown sugar sprinkled on top of the peanut butter. Oh no. It […]

Don’t feel too sorry for us. The forecast is for sunshine and the seventies Friday and Saturday. But don’t blame us if we don’t believe it!

Happy Progress

First I want to show off my progress gathering in some of that cheery china I found while visiting the Merkles in the UK. Now isn’t that just fun?

Next, I want you to see that I have been sewing. I’m making crazy little skirts for the granddaughters and remember I have eight of them. I […]

Visit Lovely Paris

Our good friends Mark and Chris (many of you know Chris because she is our church secretary and a whole lot of help to a whole lot of folks) have just wrapped up a fabulous trip to London and Paris (with a short day-trip to Oxford to see our kids). Mark is a well-known photographer […]

Hello from Home

Hello everyone! Doug and I have been out of town for a week (just got home yesterday afternoon), and we had very little opportunity to get to the internet while we were gone. (Actually, that was a good thing!) We got to visit old friends, worship with some of the saints in Annapolis, attend two […]