Finding Light in the Darkening Days of Advent
I know that winter’s coming, with Christmas on its heels, when I turn on the bike light attached to the top of my dog’s harness.…
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Lessons From the Midwinter Blues
Lonely blue jays and cardinals mark the days of midwinter, spreading color sparingly with their fretted flights above browned lawns and bare, grey trees. Even…
Spring Cleaning and a Renewed Commitment to Prayer
A long winter is fading into the calendar. Sunlight seems more content to lounge around past dinner and may even reach through the early spring…
Weekend in the Woods
This weekend, a group of friends and I trekked to the Catskills for our annual winter getaway. It’s the fourth year that my group of…
Winter: The Enjoyable Way
For hours now, snowflakes have been floating down outside my study’s window. A thousand-mile stretch of the northern U.S. has just been hit with a…
Oh Hey Lent, Didn’t See You There…
“Lent snuck up on me this year,” I thought last night, while inhaling a plate of pancakes, with a side of chocolate, washed down with…
15 Fun Ideas for Melting Away the Winter Blues
Not all of us are lucky enough to live in a place where the average temperature in January is 7o°. Even worse, not all of…
BARBARA — DAY 43: Snow Way!
This photo represents two things — A winter that WILL NOT END. #ICantBelieveItsStillSnowing. And Lent. Lent is long — just over six weeks. And all…
February 2014 Wallpaper
Brrrrrr! It’s cold this winter, so we’ve chosen an appropriate snow-covered image for this year’s February wallpaper that includes a lot of (weather-related) days to…
January 2014 Wallpaper
Happy New Year! It’s the first day of 2014 and time for our latest desktop, keeping you in the know about all the important spiritual…
