History, Real Life, and Faith
What are your ten unforgettable books? You know, books that have stayed with you over the years for one reason or another. A friend recently asked. The idea was not to think too hard, just write down the first ten to come to mind. I’ve been reading since the age of four and I have a degree in English Literature,…
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How we put in a graywater system to water our vegetable garden. California’s drought required it for fresh vegetables!
I’ve spent years reading Oswald Chambers‘ famous My Utmost for His Highest, but two years were memorably intense. My life is richer for it, in unexpected ways. It started in the summer of 2012 when we purchased a copy of David McCasland’s biography Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God. My husband and I read the book avidly and learned much about “OC.”…
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How to get rid of self-pity with advice from Oswald Chambers and Marilla Cuthbert.
I’ve just set aside everything to read a new book about the Romanov family. It’s only about the thirtieth book on the Romanovs to capture my imagination over the years. Nearly 100 years after the regicide of Tsar Nicholas II, his Tsaritsa Alexandra and five children Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia, and Alexei, still attract writers and readers. A friendly chat…
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I returned to UCLA’s University Research Library recently to finish my research on A Poppy in Remembrance. (Back in the dark ages when I was a student, we called it the URL; it’s now the Young University Research Library YURL after former chancellor Charles Young). The years have disappeared in an alarming way, but as I stood on the steps and…
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