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Author: Charity

By Charity Posted on August 19, 2015August 4, 2015

Wordless: Fence

Princeton, Massachusetts. 2015.

Categories: PhotographyTags: black and white, Photography
By Charity Posted on August 16, 2015

Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

Here If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book—the memoir of a Unitarian Universalist chaplain for game wardens in Maine—was … Continue reading Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

Categories: BooksTags: book review, ministry
By Charity Posted on August 14, 2015August 14, 2015

The Point of Vanishing by Howard Axelrod

The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received this book as an ARC through a LibraryThing … Continue reading The Point of Vanishing by Howard Axelrod

Categories: BooksTags: book review, solitude
By Charity Posted on August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

Wordless: One Butterfly, Two Views

Monarch butterfly, July 2015.

Categories: PhotographyTags: monarch butterfly, Photography
By Charity Posted on August 10, 2015

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dept. of Speculation is the August selection for the SBC online book club. To learn more about SBC or … Continue reading Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Marriage, parenthood
By Charity Posted on August 7, 2015

Running Lessons

I recently bought new running shoes. I knew mine were old because I had no memory of buying shoes after we moved from North Carolina, and we did that in … Continue reading Running Lessons

Categories: MindfulnessTags: best self, judgment, running
By Charity Posted on August 5, 2015May 24, 2015

Wordless: Meadow

Wachusett Meadow, Princeton, Massachusetts, May 2015.

Categories: PhotographyTags: Photography, Wachusett Meadow
By Charity Posted on August 2, 2015

Bookends: July 2015

  Between ordinary busy-ness and re-joining Netflix, not a lot of reading happened this month. Well, that’s not really true. I read for my class, and I read to my … Continue reading Bookends: July 2015

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Cavalcade of Classics, reading, Sisters Book Club
By Charity Posted on July 29, 2015July 27, 2015

Wordless: Emergent

    Monarch butterfly and chrysalides, July 2015. For The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge.

Categories: PhotographyTags: chrysalis, monarch butterfly, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Charity Posted on July 24, 2015July 29, 2015

Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright

Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright My rating: 4 of 5 stars (Audiobook) This is the last book in the Melendy Quartet, and it might be my favorite.

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Elizabeth Enright, Melendy Quartet
By Charity Posted on July 22, 2015July 29, 2015

Monarch Butterfly Rearing Recap: Release and Conservation

The ninth and last butterfly was still a pupa when I went to bed last night. The chrysalis seemed smaller than the others and hadn’t changed colors in the same way … Continue reading Monarch Butterfly Rearing Recap: Release and Conservation

Categories: HomeschoolTags: butterfly, metamorphosis, monarch
By Charity Posted on July 22, 2015July 22, 2015

Wordless: Pink

Rhododendron, Massachusetts, May 2015.

Categories: PhotographyTags: Photography, pink, rhododenron, wordless

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