Monthly Archives: January 2009

We Did It, Grassroots Troops

President Obama nixed the hundreds of millions of dollars in the “stimulus” package that was intended to fund contraception for Americans.  Devin reported on it earlier, here.  I still feel sick inside thinking about the hundreds of millions of dollars … Continue reading

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Time to Fess Up

I treat myself these days by reading farm blogs.  I think about our farm all the time.  I dream about looking out the kitchen window at pasture.  I long for fresh milk and homemade cheese and butter and ice cream.  … Continue reading

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For What I’m Grateful

Pandora music blasting Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.  Parchment paper chilling my shortbread dough.  Arbonne RE facial products.  It’s the little things that help me feel like I’m still an woman whose seen the world and received an education.  I can’t leave … Continue reading

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The Surplus Population

“Let those poor go to the prisons and the Union workhouses.  And if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” You may be puzzling over who made this statement.  Was it Scrooge or … Continue reading

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Faith and Reason in Practice

I was given a daily devotional book called My Daily Bread several years ago by a friend.  It has been of great help to me in growing closer to Christ, and I have read and prayed through the lessons several … Continue reading

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