Topic of a recent sermon at our church: Who’s welcome here? Answer: Everyone. There should be no litmus test – skin color, sexual preference, etc. – because we all belong to God. I wish it were that easy out in the rest of the world. I used to be a news junkie: I read newspapers, […]
Thank God for funny people. I’m blessed with them: friends and family who make me laugh, and whom I love to make laugh. Laughter is what keeps us sane, I think. Furthermore, I think we were made that way: God has a sense of humor. Just look at the platypus! Humor is the vitamin that […]
I have come to realize that something remarkable happens when we hit a certain age: Apparently, we can get all the calories we need from air. Everything else makes us gain weight. No kidding, I used to be able to scarf down a big old piece of cake, go for a run, and it was […]
I went to bed happy last night and woke up to more senseless killing. This one was a little different. It was Orlando; I don’t think they’ve had a mass killing there for a while, so that was new. Then, of course, the large scale – 50 people dead so far as I write this. […]
It makes perfect sense that May 4 is a big calendar day for Star Wars fans. Except, “May the Fourth be with you” sounds like it should be from the movie, “Thtar Warth,” with Printheth Leia and Luke Thkywalker. And of course, that makes me think of the priest performing the wedding in another favorite […]
I am on Day 4 of a virus that features a low-grade fever and horrible, wracking, prolonged cough. My husband has it, too. In fact, he’s had it for two days longer than I have, and he still feels awful. Maybe it’s the fever, but this morning I woke up and imagined I was in […]
Some people have a spirit animal, an animal that’s supposed to represent your skills or beliefs in some way. My spirit animal is Fozzie Bear. Yes, that furry comedian from “The Muppet Show,” the one with the pork pie hat and polka-dot bow tie. “The one who tells the terrible jokes?” you say. Yes, but […]
Bumble Creek Farm
A delightful true account, told with love and humor by award-winning writer Janet Farrar Worthington, of her young family's riotous adventures on their own "Green Acres," as two urban professionals "who had no idea whatsoever what we were doing" start a farm in beautiful Horse Oak, Virginia.
Janet has done it again in this charming book giving happy little snapshots of home and family, animals with attitude, life in a small town, and finding the funny when everything seems crazy.