by Shari Dragovich | Dec 1, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, These Days
I am dragging boxes from the attic, trying to remember where I displayed each nativity set in my NC home and scanning my rooms for the same flat surfaces in this new place. None of my familiar table-tops are in good viewing areas in this home. I let out a sigh, my my...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 19, 2013 | Ribbon Box, These Days, Travel
“Mike tells me you are a writer,” one of our fellow breakfast companions commented to me. The gentleman had an accent that I couldn’t define and made me strain my listening. He also wore a smile that looked to have more behind it than simple interest. Superman and I...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 31, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Mothering, These Days
Tonight when all the little ghosts, goblins, Marvel superheroes, and minecraft blockheads are tripping from house to house threatening candy or else, my children (the three left who trick-or-treat, that is) will not be amongst them. No. I am not against Halloween as a...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 18, 2013 | Ribbon Box, These Days, Uncategorized
This week I’ve been jammin’ out my daily chores to The Avett Brothers’ new album, Magpie and the Dandelion. I discovered The Avett Brothers while living as a North Carolinian, reading Our State and Garden & Gun magazines, working at absorbing every ounce of this...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 15, 2013 | Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
We were driving home Sunday from a mountain vacation weekend (an oddity, considering we live in the mountains) when my phone dinged a text from my new sister-in-law: “Happy first harvest day!!! Soo excited for my first combine experience.” The animated joy in her text...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 8, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
There are some trees in my deeply sloped back yard—really more forest than yard—which have beat all the others in donning their fall color. They are over-achievers demanding attention and have their moment of glory first. These trees are scrawny compared to those...
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