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696 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 15, Blog Posts 351 to 375 « Previous | Next » Page 1.. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Category: Entertainment » Blogging I HATE MY JOB! Lent Devotion #44 - CarolynCHolland(9,534)   SCRIPTURE: Psalm 46:10 Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Related Scripture: Isaiah 2:11, 17 REFLECTION: Bill hates his job as grocery store check-out clerk. Not only is it a job he does not want, but you should see the people, he...Category: Entertainment » Blogging GOOD COMETH FROM EVIL Lent Devotion #41 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Genesis 50:15 When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps now Joseph will hate us and will pay us back for all the evil we did to him. REFLECTION: Guilt can remain with a person many years. It did for Joseph's brothers, producing a fear that Joseph would be like...Category: Entertainment » Blogging BORING FOOD Lent Devotion #37 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Exodus 16:35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (KJV) REFLECTION: Our bodies are delicately made, precisely balanced. When one part develops a problem, there is a...Category: Entertainment » Blogging JASPER MILQUETOAST: PRECIOUS STONE, PHYSICS TEACHER Lent Devotion #36 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Exodus 28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. (KJV) Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third...Category: Entertainment » Blogging CHILDISH CHARACTERISTICS - CarolynCHolland(9,534) While traveling along the road on a work/vacation trip to New England, we met many people in libraries, courthouses, beaches, stores, and restaurants. Interactions with children provided many wonderful moments. Today and tomorrow I’ll share some of these meetings with you. Carolyn the...Category: Entertainment » Blogging Thundersnow in Buffalo October 2006 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) This is a long entry, but the topic is huge---personal reports from Buffalo, New York. Monte and I stopped at his sister’s home in northern New York where we met his brother and sister for lunch. It was October 12. That evening residents of our next planned stop, a suburb of Buffalo...Category: Entertainment » Blogging The tragic side of vacation - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 16, 2006 We're home from our trip now, having accomplished much in terms of family and writing research, visiting and having new experiences. Our trip was marred by four events that occurred back home while we were away. The first call came from where we lived four addresses ago. Cindy...Category: Entertainment » Blogging Travel Apprehension: EARTHQUAKES - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 10, from Ellsworth, Maine library. Although I really wanted to travel to Lamoine, Maine, my visit was filled with trepidation and apprehension. While in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I heard rumblings on the news of an earthquake on Mount Desert Island, where Bar Harbor is. The island...Category: Entertainment » Blogging More critters---oh, no! - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 6, 2006 After promising I was through with critters, we were met with the perfume of a skunk on our arrival to the hotel room last night. Anyway, such creative writing I'm getting to do during our trip. There's usually just time to jot down our travels, and we've really had no excapades...Category: Entertainment » Blogging From Lamoine, Maine - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 5, 2006 We made it to Lamoine, Maine, and even traveled to the beach, where all I could do was take a couple nice photo shots. We are on a mission: researching genealogy, land deeds and material to enhance the historical novel I am writing. So no more critters, I guess. Since we are here...Category: Entertainment » Blogging The Monarch Gatherings - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 4, 2006 In reviewing my notes from 2003 I noticed when we visited Foster Park in Kittery, Maine on Sept. 30, it was the Monarch butterfly gathering time and place. Since we were here on the same date we drove back to the park, but since it was a weekend this time they were charging $10 a...Category: Entertainment » Blogging OBITUARY FOR BLUE BUOY (A Blue Lobster) - CarolynCHolland(9,534) October 3, 2006. Actually, this is being written in the Kennebunk, Maine library, but it has to do with an event in Portsmouth. Fortunately, the Kennebunk Library computers DO NOT have timers, and the library is more gracious with the time allowed on their electronics. Maybe today I can do more...Category: Entertainment » Blogging From the Antiquarian Library - CarolynCHolland(9,534) September 28, 2006. Greetings to all from New England. Monte and I began our New England sojourn on Cape Cod, the guests of Bob, my father's cousin. He was preparing to close his Cape Cod cottage and to open his Florida home, but was gracious enough to host us for two nights. We exchanged...Category: Entertainment » Blogging Moose, Goose, Deer - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Definitely it was not a goose. This beast was massive, Certainly not passive. While racing high speed ahead It saw me and it stopped dead. His eyes, locked into mine, seemed to screecher,Category: Entertainment » Blogging Cochran Cockroach’s Letters About Finding His Identity Part 7 of 7 Parts - beanerywriters(11,675) This is the seventh and final part of a letter that I, Cochran Cornell the Cantankerous Cockroach, wrote to my friend, A’nonniemouse. To read previous parts of this letter click on Cochran’s Writings, where all parts are filed. Then I thought about roach pastoring. But how can I do... Category: Entertainment » Blogging JOCHEBED AND LUCY: STORIES OF ADOPTION AND MOTHER LOVE - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Below is a conversation between Lucy, a contemporary woman, and Jochebed, a woman from the Bible’s Old Testament. Both women “lost” infants they “gave up” for “adoption” due to the exceptional circumstances of their lives. Lucy’s story is based on a...Category: Entertainment » Blogging JOCHEBED AND LUCY: STORIES OF ADOPTION AND MOTHER LOVE Part 2 of 2 - beanerywriters(11,675) Below is Part 2 of a 2-Part conversation between Lucy, a contemporary woman, and Jochebed, a woman from the Bible’s Old Testament. Both women “lost” infants they “gave up” for “adoption” due to the exceptional circumstances of their lives. Lucy’s... Category: Entertainment » Blogging THE UNICORN: MYTH OR REALITY? Part 1 of 2 Parts - beanerywriters(11,675) Its beauty is beyond comprehension and it’s boundless strength prevents its capture, according to literature through the ages. Authors from many cultures affirm its existence yet there are those who claim the beast is merely a myth. Who could question the existence of such a universal... Category: Entertainment » Blogging OVERSTUFFED Lent Devotion #13 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Matthew 6:19-20 Do not gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal; 20. But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume...Category: Entertainment » Blogging MY SPIDER PLANT LIVES Lent Devotion #14 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Micah 5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. (KJV) I found my three-foot high planter tipped over on my porch, dirt scattered about and pieces of the lush...Category: Entertainment » Blogging WHO IS SERVING WHOM? Lent Devotion #16 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 12:7 Then they (the elders) spoke to him (King Rehoboam), saying, “If you will be as a servant to this people today, will serve them, grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” (NAS) For many years my mission...Category: Entertainment » Blogging CHILDREN CAN BE HEAVY LADEN Lent Devotion #21 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”(NKJV) REFLECTION: I was alone with nine year-old Susie when she approached me at my computer and began a conversation about her father, who’d left her and her mother when...Category: Entertainment » Blogging THE YOUGHIOGHENY (RIVER) CRAWL Lent Devotion #22 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Exodus 7:21 The fish that were in the river died, the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river... (KJV) REFLECTION: I find surprising revelations emerge in news-feature work. One occurred during an interview with a local artist who was commissioned to do a...Category: Entertainment » Blogging LEAD ME TO MY ROCKING CHAIR Lent Devotion #24 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: John 5:36 “I (Jesus) have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.” (NIV) REFLECTION: The late Mrs. Grim was 94 years old when I interviewed her for a...Category: Entertainment » Blogging COME CELEBRATE MY FUNERAL Lent Devotion #23 - CarolynCHolland(9,534) SCRIPTURE: Genesis 15:15 And you shall to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old (hoary) age. (Amp) REFLECTION: My friend Norma Leary wrote in jest that perhaps we ought to take the “fun” out of the word “funeral.” Might I add that since most funerals are... |
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