Friday Five: May Play

Here is the prompt this morning from Patricia over at RevGalBlogPals: It’s May! And it smells so good outside. I can close my eyes and remember the golden hours after dinner as the days grew later and later, and we got to play outside until called home. It makes me want to go outside right…

Friday Five: Healing Spaces

Here is the prompt from Deb over at Revgals . “I am an enthusiastic newspaper reader. Lately, however, world events have made it hard to read and process the pain in the world around me. Perhaps you have struggled with this, too. So, with the events of the violence and tragedy from the Boston Marathon…

Friday Five: Random

Here is the prompt from Karla at Revgals today: 1.  How are you doing?  What’s going on in your life? Generally, I would say life is good and life is busy. The usual. But I have been dealing with a misbehaving knee for a while. After finally seeing the doctor when it didn’t go away…

Friday Five: BREATHE

Here is the Friday Five prompt from over at Revgals. “It’s the week before Holy Week. Even if you are the non-preaching type, there’s plenty going on in most of our homes religious. I think we all need a collective deep breath. 🙂 This week’s Friday Five is simply a moment to BREATHE. Stop and…

Friday Five: Technology

Here is the prompt from Jan at Revgalblogpals today. “Although you won’t know this, I am pre-posting this ten days ahead of schedule, because my husband and I are going to be in Washington State during his spring break (from teaching at a local community college). His parents have very recently moved into a senior…

Friday Five: Good Things

Here is the prompt from over at revgals today, beginning with this quote from Tolkein. Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger,…

Friday Five: Sneaky Friday

RevKJarla has this week’s prompt for the Friday Five: Who knew it was the Second Friday of the month? Thank goodness something reminded me, but my apologies for the late post. I have been busy getting ready for Blizzard Nemo (really, 24 inches in Boston? Why on earth don’t I have a snow blower???) and…

Friday Five: Advent Edition

Here is the prompt from over at Revgalblogpals: “Those of you who are my friends on Facebook know I’ve been trying to post Advent music in this season, which is no small trick because, as you well know, it’s been “Christmas” since Halloween in the world out there! So today we focus on Advent and…

Friday Five: Table Topics

Here is the prompt from over at RevGalBlogPals: Advent blessings to you! Our Friday Five today is taken from a small lucite box of questions called “Table Topics” that someone gave me.   They are supposed to be discussion starters at all of the dinner parties one gives.   I think some of them are fun, so here…

Friday Five: What’s on your shelf?

Here is the prompt from over at Revgals today: “You probably have, like me, a study full of books. Maybe they spill into another room. They go with you in the car to appointments when you might have some dead space in your schedule. In my study, the books are double-stacked and in somewhat precarious…