Author Archives: Sharon

Anyone Still Here?

It has been a long time since I visited this space, much less write in this space. My last entry was my 49th birthday, in 2019. A lot has happened in our lives and family since that time. We survived a “pandemic” and three graduations (two high school and one college). My husband left a...

Another Year Older…

I seem to always come back to this space on my birthday every year. As I grow another year older so does the old blog. This year I have redesigned and I am hoping to go in a slightly different direction, not quite starting over but definitely moving away from where I have been. As...

My Drug of Choice

  How Mango spends her days. I have been going through the Lysa Terkeurst study Made to Crave with a group of ladies at our church. While listening to others speak about different kinds of addictions related to food, not just the over-eating but also the two extremes that can overtake a person too like...

Another Weird Mantel

A few years ago I lived in a house that had a mantel with what looked like a long horn steer head in the middle of it. The keystone was shaped like a head and the upper corner stones sat out from the rest of the stones and looked like horns; it even had eyes....

Disappointment and Trusting God

I have had this fear for a long time, …a fear of messing up or wasting good paper. Good watercolor paper is expensive. I have fallen into the trap of buying the cheaper paper far too many times. I can’t count the times I have used cheaper paper and had it begin to disintegrate when...

Hiking Toward Home