I was thinking about the act of breathing today. And the word breath. Often misspelled as its verb form, breathe, this little word has quite the extraordinary purpose in this life of ours. It is the proof of life, the thing we do an average of 20,000 times a day that we rarely consider. Not […]

I just completed a feat that made me give myself a little pat on the back.  This girl spent two weeks in archery season and two weeks in rifle season trudging through the woods and up a ladder and into a stand waiting for a big buck.  Through wind and sleet and snow (no hail), […]

A dinner bell once hung outside our home.  It was to be rung when folks needed to be called from all directions around the farm.  It was my noisy way to say, *Hey, Family! I need you closer!* But changes are happening at the Kirksey abode.  This spring when the hot tub got hauled out […]