I didn’t tell you earlier but Steve, Sarah and I are pregnant!  With a new Smith family member! We will “give birth” around midnight tonight to a five-year old, 6-pound girl doggie.  (Midnight is when Steve is arriving from the faraway place where he had to go to pick her up.) Even though it’s a school night, I will get Sarah up right before Steve…

Sunday afternoon, after I’d had my requisite post-morning service, mid-afternoon nap,  I happened to take a little gander at the dresser in our bedroom.  And that simple little gander turned into an all out, full-fledged spate of housekeeping horror. My dressers! They were dusty!  Dismayingly, discouragingly, disconcertingly dusty.…

Friday night, my camera and I sallied forth on the boardwalk that runs along the waterfront near the downtown area of Manteo.     We saw boats and flowers and grass and beauty of so many varieties.  We saw a sun shining and a sun setting. We wound our way around the curves and corners of the boardwalk, reveling in the unmistakable, inimitable smells and…

Last week, I rode my bike up to the north bridge around sunset hoping to catch some sun-setting loveliness.  Unfortunately, all the usually present tinges of rose, mauve and gold seemed to be on strike for the day and I was mostly left with a sad little pallet of non-present pinks and ungolden grays. Bummer.…