by Caroline Crocker | Apr 18, 2024 | Science
When I first wrote this blog, I had hope. It would only last for a month and then not come back for 17 years. Sigh. Unfortunately, starting next month, it’ll become something of a tradition—every day I will go into the garden and check for cicadas. At first,...
by Caroline Crocker | Apr 16, 2024 | Mybooks
Soon after the publication of Brave Face: The Inspiring WWII Memoir of a Dutch/German Child, my mother, Meta, and I heard an outcry. “We want more!” I wanted to provide that by writing about my father, Frits’s, life, but it seemed unlikely I could. After...
by Caroline Crocker | Apr 14, 2024 | Bible, Faith
Not so long ago, one of my granddaughters brought her little face up close to mine and inspected me carefully. “Grammy, you’re really old!” At another time, another one asked me why I don’t just let my hair be gray, seeing as I am ancient anyway. And just recently,...
by Caroline Crocker | Apr 12, 2024 | Bible, Faith
Who of us remembers that song, “Turn Turn, Turn” with music by the Byrds and lyrics by King Solomon? I certainly listened to, and even memorized, it many years ago, when I was a child growing up in Iowa. If you want to hear it again, this is the link. From...
by Caroline Crocker | Apr 10, 2024 | Bible, Faith
based on notes from teachings by Rev. David Pileggi Imagine… Imagine you are sitting on this hillside by Lake Tiberias (we know it as the Sea of Galilee). The sun is warm but the breeze from the lake keeps you from feeling too hot. You are seated with your friends, up...
