Sherry | May 30, 2011
As soon as we arrived here, Oscar started talking about “the pond.” He talks in phrases at this point but with his parents handy to fill in the blanks we learned this was a favorite place to visit. You can feed ducks, see turtles, and watch extra large fish (koi) swim near the surface. Turned [...]
Sherry | May 29, 2011
Back in 2006, on a road trip through the Northeast, we attended an unprogrammed Friends meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Our experience this morning at Old Haverford Friends Meeting in Haverford, Pennsylvania, was in most ways the same. This meeting is exactly 200 years older than Newberg Friends, which is considered old on the other [...]
Sherry | May 28, 2011
We finally made it to Philly after a full day in the air. Rachel and John are enough of a draw to this part of the country, but adding Oscar to the mix makes the combination unbeatable. Today we set out on a road trip to Amish country—Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But of course we had to [...]
Sherry | May 25, 2011
We didn’t find out until we got to the airport and tried to check in that weather conditions in Chicago would prevent us from making our connection to Philadelphia. Bummer. But just by pressing a button on the monitor, we were immediately rebooked to Philly through San Francisco tomorrow. So we took our lemon and [...]
Sherry | May 21, 2011
I haven’t shared links in a while. Here are a few I felt worth sharing. Just click on the darker text. An interview with Eugene Peterson. Do you like soccer? Even if you don’t, you might like this. Have you thought about adding a few chickens to your backyard? You probably learned to type this [...]
Sherry | May 20, 2011
Tonight at 8@6, I took these two pictures to add to my start-up mother-daughter look-alike collection. Here’s another I snagged from Facebook… Wow.
Sherry | May 19, 2011
She doesn’t act her age. This morning she flew home from Boise, where she attended the memorial service of her brother-in-law Roy. On their way home from the airport, other siblings-in-law took her for a birthday lunch. When she got home she noticed the work on her apartment lighting hadn’t been done. After a call [...]
Sherry | May 17, 2011
On Sunday we attended a retirement party for brother Howard, who finished his teaching career this month at George Fox University. Howard’s grandsons, Derric and Asher, welcomed guests. His son, Nate, shared some greetings from friends around the country. Arthur Roberts offered words of commissioning and spoke of the importance of the work of teaching [...]
Sherry | May 15, 2011
My days are usually too full to sit down with a good book. This month has held the joyful confluence of a delightful Wendell Berry book and … … first this, the front porch of the Anderson home in Gilbert, Arizona, on an 80-degree afternoon. The blue-and-white flags were flying in honor of Quinn’s birthday. [...]
Sherry | May 14, 2011
Of course we took the long cut home from breakfast in Nehalem so we could look for eagles and other birdery. Mauri’s always the first to spot one, since he has an eagle eye. We were on a back road, so it was easy to just stop and look. We each reached for our cameras—mine [...]