Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
Bible Reading Program Redo
Among us it seems there are a few like me, who try and read through the Bible in a single year. I’ve tried various…
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Heartbroken or Hopeful (maybe both)
I felt heartbroken after reading this excerpt from “Figuring” by Maria Popova who blogs at Brain Pickings. She is a secularist bravely trying to…
I Want to Live Here
“I want to live here.” That was Anita’s response to our week long stay at a cabin in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area –…
I Wish I’d Known
One. He insisted if I was a girl I be named after her. Interesting, isn’t it? Boys are frequently named after the father and…
Writing with interruptions
Today like many summer days, I sit at my desk hoping to make some progress on my current manuscript. For any writer, not just…
Rhubarb and Barbcue Sauce – make strange new partners
Each spring one of the first things to poke up through the ground in the spring are little reddish wrinkled faces that quickly, somehow…
My Faux Chicken Farm
We are living in the icebox nation right now. A few nights ago it was 17 below zero with a wind chill that brought…
A Minnesota December
Northern Minnesota December As a child I loved December best of all months. It held the two most important days of the year—my birthday…
Have Smartphones Shattered a Generation?
Have Smartphones and iPhones destroyed a generation of teenagers? asks a recent article in The Atlantic written by Jean Twenge. The piece that appeared in the most…
Why toadsdrinkcoffee for a Blog Title?
When I began blogging back in 2008 I had to pick a name for the blog. So what’s with toadsdrinkcoffee? To be sure, the…