Have you ever had one of those ‘full circle’ moments when everything you’ve been struggling with seems to all fit together and you can make sense of it? I’ve just had that experience during the past forty-eight hours. It started when Pastor Adam Hamilton, a methodist minister who founded the Church of the Resurrection in Kansas nearly forty years ago, announced that he will be running for the Senate. Those of us who watch his church services online or in person and read his books, are...

Jim and I affectionately call our 3 acres of land here in Fairview ‘The Kiser Ranch.’ I took this picture one morning as the sun came over the horizon. You would be hard pressed to get a more picturesque view from a bedroom window. It reminds me a little of when several of us took a road trip to Alpine, Texas in 2013 to attend a Cowboy Poetry Gathering there. There were just three of us gals, back then: Marianne Hunt, Nancy Redd and yours truly. Here are some of the sights we enjoyed:...

True confession: there’s always been a part of me who wishes I had been born in Ireland. I’m not sure where that pie in the sky dream came from, but it stayed with me. Since I’m so mesmerized by the Irish, this month’s newsletter will focus on that country. A little trivia here: The color representing Ireland used to be blue, throughout history, but in 1798, green would be deemed the proper color to celebrate Irish heritage. Shamrocks and four-leaf clovers are symbols of luck in Ireland...