I have a dear friend, and her name is Big Nance. We’ve been friends from our first class together in graduate school. We bonded as we laughed ourselves silly over the inanity of a particular professor of a statistics course we were taking. He was a professor in the Counseling department, and teaching statistics was …

Today’s Psalm, Psalm 130, is a beauty, and I don’t want anyone who is interested to miss out on this treasure. I think maybe this is my favorite one so far. In case you’re just now “tuning in”, I’ve been reading Beth Moore’s study on the Psalms of Ascent, Stepping Up, and taking the opportunity …

This might seem a strange title for a post on Psalm 129, and I admit, arriving at this title was a bit of a tortuous journey for me, but bear with me, hear my tale, and all will eventually be made (fairly) plain. Certain psalms are called imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms are those psalms that …

If you are wondering why a little wrinkled brown thing clutching a microphone is pictured atop this blog post, you, my dear child, are obviously not of a certain age. Or else you are of a certain age, but have led a very sheltered life. That’s a California Raisin, and he’s singing that he “Heard …

How would you like to move in to the cabin pictured here? What? No takers???? Once, many years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting a cabin that was originally built in the 1800’s. (NOT the one pictured here.) The owner of that cabin had lovingly restored it, detail by painstaking detail. He had also …

Does anyone remember that tea? It used to be one of my Mom’s favorites treats: a cup of Constant Comment tea. All orange and cinnamon-y. Lovely. I can still smell it in my memory’s olfactory system – the nose of my mind. Today, dear reader, it’s up to you. I know you’re out there. Reading. …

Have you ever felt like you’ve been put out to pasture for a season? Well, I have. My user name, Susan in the Boonies, wasn’t chosen as lightly as you might think. For 14 years of my life, I attended a class called Bible Study Fellowship. It is a wonderful organization that served as a …

There is an old commercial, for shampoo, perhaps, where the gorgeous model looks at the camera and says in a sultry voice, “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”. An obnoxious commercial, but remarkable in its staying power in my mind. Sadly for the advertisers, I DON’T remember what product they were advertising. I sure remember …

Slab o’ Humble Pie, Anyone? I think you’ll find the Crow is excellent, today, Madame. After all my bragging about good food, I think I better take myself down a peg or two, in the interests of God not doing it for me. You know Scripture says that God opposes the proud, but gives grace …

Now, really, I just don’t know how to sing the excellencies of this concoction, this Decadent Hot Fudge Sauce,  highly enough. The Best Ice Cream Topping in the Entire World All I can say is: share this Decadent Hot Fudge Sauce with someone you love. Because it COULD turn out to be *your* Love Potion …

This recipe for a Mixed Antipasto Platter is not only delicious, it’s absolutely a show stopper, in terms of appearance. Your guests will be eager to dig in and decide which of the delicacies they like best. The Big Night The title I originally gave this post, The Big Night, is a reference to a …

When you’ve been on the planet as long as I have, certain puzzle pieces begin to start clicking into place. One piece that has recently slipped into place for me is that life is full of green pastures where we get to lie down and quiet waters where we are led, as well as times …

Whatever is going on in my life always causes a song to pop into my brain. If you’ve hung around me in real life, you know I will spontaneously burst into song all day long. There’s a song for every situation, and as I was pondering what I wanted to write about today, the song …

Have you ever felt like your own body had it in for you? I am not going to turn this into a whine about my list of afflictions, but let’s just say that my latest issue is just about to eat my mental, emotional and spiritual lunch. And I’ve just about had it with my …

Wow! Friday was a big day for me! First, it was my birthday I celebrated it by going to my wonderful Ladies Bible Study group where we are doing the Beth Moore study on the Psalms of Ascent, called Stepping Up. What a sweet group of ladies!!! I even took my dear daughter with me, …