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Something happened today at a funeral that reminded me of a question God posed to me years ago, and it has to do with wisteria. For more than 50 years, our house has been graced with an aged, gnarled wisteria vine growing along a fence on the side of our property. Wisterias are vigorous vines…

Today I learned that my long-time companion, a sweet and gentle beagle named Taffy, is going to die. This loving animal, a gift from my husband after my mom died, has a very large tumor in her chest, pressing against her lungs and heart. The vet gave me some medication to help open her bronchial…

By Lois Rogers, Guest Blogger When the Oct. 4 Feast of St. Francis of Assisi approaches every year, I take a Franciscan inventory of the yard. Happily this year the survey once again revealed that all five – count ‘em five – statues of the saint, including two with bunnies nestling by his side –…

As a child, my parents gave me two very oversized, illustrated books of Scripture – one of Old Testaments stories and the other of New Testament stories. I loved those books and while their pages are worn and broken away from the binding, I'm happy to still have them for my grandchildren to read. The…

If the pandemic has taught me anything, it’s how adept we are at creating “the other.”                                                            With more time to read, research and actually pay attention, I began to recognize more fully the need we have for the “other,” that fluid…

After the death of my dad, I wanted to do something special to honor him. It was then that I was given the chance to write a weekly column entitled “Things My Father Taught Me.”  About a year after the column was first published, a workshop participant came to me at the end of the…

One of my favorite places to visit when we vacationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was a small book store in the town of Buxton. Set in a charming old house whose property stretched back to the placid waters of the Pamlico Sound, the ambiance of the place was captured in a small…

Ramen noodles. By some, they’re considered a blessing. By others, a curse on good nutrition, but I never thought they would be fodder for a profound moment of insight from a three-year old. During lunch, I asked my grandson to tell me about his favorite foods. We ended up talking about noodles, his favorite, and what…

As we pulled into the diner for lunch, I noticed a large black bird with a wide wing span swooping overhead. As I exited my car and walked toward the building, I realized the bird, a black vulture, had alighted on the roof edge along the gutter, now perched wing-to-wing with a second vulture. As…

Many would say that in order to be happy in life you must first know your passion. I’ve always considered writing as my passion, but if that were true, I would have finished at least one of the three novels I started years ago. Now, having reached senior status, I can finally admit to a…