Honey is one of the earliest sweeteners used by humans and preceded the use of sugarcane by many centuries. Beekeeping to obtain honey probably goes …
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The Words of a Child
Out of the mouth of babes you may have heard statements like these, “You stupid dummy!” “You dirty dog!” or “Jacob is a crybaby!” Perhaps …
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Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina is 500,000 acres. That’s a lot of land for two eight-year-olds to get lost in. It was our first …
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It was a beautiful summer morning in Oregon’s Jefferson State Park wilderness. My friends and I had just arrived at the gravel parking lot on …
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When I was a little girl, my world was small. We didn’t really go to church much, I had friends in the neighborhood and school …
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On October 18, 2016, I was sailing on a cargo ship, the MV Baltic Sea, to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Early in the …
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The date was July 8, 2014. A reverse 911 call came through with tornado warnings. A tornado? I’ve seen results of tornadoes in the news, but …
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I love to hike. It’s one of those activities that feeds my soul. But when my knees started hurting a few months ago, I went …
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Tomatoes are amazing! Apparently, most of us agree because we have come up with all sorts of ways to add them to our diet. Consider …
Read More »Boy in the Storm
The day of January 25, 1978, had been favorable—rain and fog, a little misty, but the temperature a mild 40 degrees—when I clocked in at …
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