Good morning! Or whatever time of day it is for you! I’m sipping my black coffee and eating a banana—my usual way to nourish my body and start the day. I have been under the weather for a while and haven’t been able to write and post my blog at the usual time and day. … Continue reading A Vision for Your Future
Have you ever started out on a road trip knowing the highway you were going to take, but not quite sure how many miles you were going to travel, or exactly what would become your final destination? This was the kind of journey the “Magi,” or "Wise Men from the East” found themselves on as … Continue reading A Journey Full of Hope
I’m hoping this holiday season has already brought you much love and laughter with family and friends, whether in person or by audio phone call or video chat. And I want to wish you a New Year full of sweet surprises. Especially for us all, may God grant a present and lasting peace. Holiday Greetings … Continue reading Holiday Greetings from Nonny to You
The seasons of Christmas and Easter are intimately related. Below you will find a video of my song of praise for all seasons, "Sing Hallelujah, Give Him Your Heart." It tells the story of the birth and life of Jesus in a way that is understandable to children as well as adults. Along with the … Continue reading A Song for All Seasons: Sing Hallelujah, Give Him Your Heart
One day Nonny showed Timmy A picture on the wall. She said next to his Daddy Was a man she called Popaw.* “There used to be a Popaw Who played with your sister Sue. But since your Popaw died, There’s just me and you.” A tear rolled down Nonny’s cheek As she held Timmy up … Continue reading Holding Popaw In My Heart (a new poem)
As a working mom whose first two children (a boy and then a girl) were born 21 months apart, by the time “Child Number Three” came along—4 ¾ years after her sister—I didn’t always do things the traditional way. One example is how “Number Three” became a Santa’s Helper in what many of you might … Continue reading A Delightful Santa’s Helper
Some of you may be thinking, “What in the world is a house for Toddler Jesus?” Let me give you some background information before I jump into telling you how my two school age granddaughters and I recently made a little cardboard and popsicle stick house. We are going to use it at Christmastime alongside … Continue reading A House for Toddler Jesus (craft project)
A first cousin on my maternal (Marcum) side of the family recently passed away. Memories flooded into my mind when I received a text from his son Mike that he was gone. Actually, I sat down and cried for a while for there were so many good memories that I had of “Billy” as he … Continue reading An Unexpected Special Thanksgiving — In Memory of My Cousin Bill Warren
There are certain dishes which we think of as "must haves" when we plan holiday menus for our celebrations with family and friends. If sweet potato pie is not already on your list, how about trying out one of the recipes included in my children's book "Sweet Potato Pie, Oh My!" One is a traditional … Continue reading Sweet Potato Pie, 2 ways 🥧🥧 — Good Recipes from Nonny’s Kitchen
A few years ago I created my own Crock Pot Dressing in Nonny's kitchen. I hope you'll scroll through the photos and preparation and see if it's something you might want to try, especially around the holidays. You can make it vegetarian style as I do. Or you can easily make it with turkey or … Continue reading Crock Pot Dressing 🍂 — Good Recipes from Nonny’s Kitchen
We see a wide-eyed little girl, maybe six or so, in a church worship service. She’s standing next to her mother in a pew at the left side of the sanctuary, very close to the pianist whose fingers move adroitly over the keys of the ebony baby grand piano. The child’s eyes shift from the … Continue reading Vibrant Vibes — A Musical Phenomenon
If there’s anything our modern times have been good about teaching us, it is that there is nothing we can claim as normal. Even as young adults, if we had pretty much figured out what our passion was and sketched out a plan for reaching certain goals in life, I think we all have found … Continue reading Finding Calm in Times of Chaos
We have recently witnessed via our televised news the surprising outbreak of violence between Hamas and Israel, the scale of which has not been seen in the Middle East since October 1973. This brings to mind a poem of prophecy I first wrote in 2019, inspired by a quote attributed to David Ben Gurion, the … Continue reading Present Conflict Between Hamas and Israel–Messiah’s Footsteps?
Although I didn’t grow my usual abundance of cucumbers and go through the process of canning pickles this year, I do want to share with you my Bread and Butter Pickle recipe. Just a couple of years ago my younger granddaughter fell in love with her Nonny’s pickles made from freshly picked cucumbers. She went … Continue reading Bread & Butter Pickles 🥒 — Good Recipes from Nonny’s Kitchen
Let me wave my magic wand and bedazzle you with a Magic Chocolate Cake--magic because it has no eggs or dairy! And also magic because you mix it, bake it, and serve it from the same pan! In addition to being super easy to make, like all the recipes from Nonny's Kitchen, it has passed … Continue reading Magic Chocolate Cake – Good Recipes from Nonny’s Kitchen
As odd as it may seem, I never really understood what worship is until the later years of my life. Most certainly I’ve spent many hours in what I’ll call ‘worship services’ in various churches throughout my entire life. So, how could I have not understood that worship is more about God than about me? … Continue reading Worship Is . . .
Nonny's Blog is back! We'll be updating you about progress on projects over this time off... but for now we'll just launch back into it! This may be the season when you find yourself with extra green tomatoes on the vine in your garden, or you see them at your farmer’s market or at your … Continue reading Kentucky Fried Green Tomatoes – Good Recipes from Nonny’s Kitchen
Hello Nonny’s Blog Readers, It has been recommended to Nonny by her technical assistant (me, her daughter Eve) that she take a break for a bit from blogging to focus on some other creative projects that have been simmering on the backburner for awhile. My mother agreed, “That sounds like a plan!” New posts on … Continue reading Nonny’s Blog… Taking a Break to Create 🎨
Compromise can denote a positive or a negative action. Positively it involves civil discussion on the merits of a particular action. When we can voice our point of view without getting into a shouting match, we are on our way to showing respect for the person or persons we are engaging with, even if we … Continue reading The Names We Use: COMPROMISE
Alpha is the first and Omega the last or final letter of the Greek alphabet. As a unit they are used in various contexts: the beginning and the end, completeness, essence, dominant and submissive. In the Holy Bible New Testament book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse, the term Alpha and Omega refers to God and … Continue reading The Names We Use: ALPHA AND OMEGA
There is so much beauty in nature that it is easy for me to believe there had to be a ‘Creative Spark’ which caused it all to begin. I step outside my back door and am immediately struck by the color and vibrancy of my tiger lilies. Although tiger lilies come in many colors, mine … Continue reading THE BEAUTY OF THE UNIVERSE (Finding Beauty Series, #5)
The months of May and June bring with them the celebration of Mother's Day and then Father's Day in the U.S.A. as well as many other countries throughout the world. As my family treated me this past Mother's Day with lots of flowers and foods plus a family get-together at my older daughter’s house, I … Continue reading Tell Mother I’ll Be There . . .
In my memory, I have a vivid image of countless blades of grass in my backyard which I was seeing for the first time in an almost magical way. When was that? The time was when I had just returned home after the cataract removal and intraocular implant on my right eye. I was just … Continue reading BEAUTY IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD (Finding Beauty Series, #4)
Are you familiar with the names Phishing, Smishing, and Vishing? These are IT or Information Technology terms used to denote online scams. Here is a brief run-down on their use and how you can protect yourself. Phishing is a tech term for fishing for information with a fake email address. You can protect yourself by … Continue reading Don’t Be Fooled By Scams Of Our Day — How to Protect Yourself
It seems everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence, or what is commonly known as AI. It has branched off from what many of us rely on daily: the world’s Informational Technology, or more simply expressed as IT. They both continue to increase at exponential rates. Are our societies ready for AI? Ready or not, it … Continue reading ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A 1984 George Orwellian World?
Can there be any benefit in filling our minds with beautiful thoughts? Some might counter that if we are struggling with difficult events in our life, which is true for so many of us, having the fortitude to control what enters our brain is out of reach. My response is: consider your reflections or meditations … Continue reading CREATING BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS (Finding Beauty Series, #3)
Much of our society—in particular, what is distributed through mass communication, including social media—is focused on what is perceived as beautiful. As I am a woman, I’ll just speak to what I know personally and let someone else speak for men. For girls and women there are endless cosmetics for enhancing the beauty of the … Continue reading WHAT IS BEAUTY ? (Finding Beauty Series, #2)
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