Category Archives: Stories of Home

Still Growing Healthier

Posted on March 25, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

A month later I am down 11 pounds and doing well. I feel full of energy and my thoughts are much clearer. How do I know? In class yesterday, before nine smart teens and in close proximity to the IQ-dropping … Continue reading →

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Taking Control

Posted on February 14, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Ten days ago I signed up for the Isagenix Presidential Pak and three days ago started the 30-day Cleanse. Already I feel better–I’m not kidding. No doubt it has to do partly with not having sugar. But it also feels … Continue reading →

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My CD Album at Doorposts

Posted on February 6, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

It occurs to me I have never mentioned my album of Bible songs for families. Doorposts, a company I love, carries it. http://www.doorposts.com/details.aspx?id=45 That’s all I wanted to say.

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Mary’s Birth

Posted on January 31, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Mary’s laughter echoes like a cry of final tight farewells to empty walls. Memories break the surface with a sigh; remembrance pangs in heavy hollow tolls. For seventy years, like magnets bound by force of opposite attraction, sisters always knew … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Devices Series, Part I: Overview

Posted on January 31, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Here is my article, an overview of rhetorical devices, posted on Classical Conversations’ Writer’s Circle. https://www.classicalconversations.com/article/devices-style-part-i-introduction I’m not posting here so those who come here from that site will see new material. I am really enjoying my study of stylistic … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Devices

Posted on January 19, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

I have been having so much fun playing with rhetorical devices! Also called figures of speech, or stylistic devices, they fall in two groups: schemes and tropes. Tropes and schemes dress up our writing like nothing else. Once our children … Continue reading →

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Traveling the Mississippi with Mark Twain

Posted on November 2, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

Last night, when I read to the family from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, we came upon a passage that made them erupt in laughter. I read it again a couple of times just to savor the choice … Continue reading →

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A Day Away from Gadgets

Posted on October 5, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

When I was a girl growing up on the wild edges of a civilized town on Connecticut, I roamed the outdoors a lot. My Dad is Remington man and gave us a wholesome appreciation for creation, whether flora or fauna. … Continue reading →

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Passing up Frank Sinatra for Euclid

Posted on August 31, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

This morning I read an exuberant article about the delicious wordsmithing of the songwriters for the old crooners, namely Frank Sinatra.  http://www.worldmag.com/2014/08/rhythm_and_rhyme  My son Barnabas, whom I just delivered to St. John’s College in Annapolis, gets a kick out of Sinatra. He … Continue reading →

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Eating the Frog

Posted on June 29, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

Over the past year or so I have read several books about time management. Of course, it is not time we manage but ourselves, and I hear the authors say many of the same things, such as know what your … Continue reading →

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