Helping you serve your family better (and enjoy them more!)
Memorial Day weekend usually marks the beginning of the summer season. But the calendar is a little off at our house. Summer break is already over. My son, Zach, left today to go back to school. He finished his sophomore year at college and came home for a quick visit. But he landed a summer… Read More
Who are all those people in the old photographs? Why did Grandma save handkerchiefs with hand-crocheted hems? Who can translate this letter, dated in the 1940s and written in German? If you, like me, have discovered a trove of what might be treasure—but who really knows for sure?—what can you do to discover its worth?… Read More
I started a blog for my post here at Not Quite Amish, and then the tornadoes ripped through my adopted home state of Oklahoma. So as I sat down to finish the post, I could think of nothing else but the pain and the destruction of my fellow Okies. I’m writing this on the day it happened:… Read More
I had a birthday this month. The big 5-0. I’m not sure how I feel about it. Do I feel a mid-life crisis coming on? Should I consider cosmetic surgery? Is this the beginning of a new phase? Which all happened at a great time. I was visiting our local senior center to learn to… Read More
We pay big money to go on summer vacation. To get away. To find quiet. Is it possible to discover quietness in our everyday lives, too? To work less, not more? To turn off the electronics and listen to the still, small voice of God’s Spirit? Here are six ways I foster quiet in a… Read More
Ever wonder what your name would be if YOU were Amish? My given name is Elizabeth Ruth Byler. Ruth is probably more of a common Amish name than Elizabeth, but Byler is all over the place! In this era of instant everything . . . how about becoming “Insta-Amish!”? So, are you ready to have… Read More
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