by Shari Dragovich | May 12, 2014 | Home Front, Mothering, Nature, Ribbon Box
I am working on a different blog post to share with you—hopefully later this week. These days preparing something worthy of your reading time takes weeks rather of days. But I wanted to share with you the poem my second son put in his card to me this Mother’s Day. No,...
by Shari Dragovich | Mar 26, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
Yesterday it snowed in the Virginia mountains…again. Never could I have imagined living south of the Mason-Dixon line and having to endure so much snow. I guess that just goes to show that: a) I don’t have a very big imagination (or sense for weather patterns in...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 24, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
The snow blankets the forest floor behind my home. I can see its folds and rolls, its pitches and shallows. It is a white blanket spread out only for me and I know it. In the six months we’ve lived here, I have yet to walk through my backyard woods. Oh, I have...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 12, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
Those of you who visit here regularly know I am a wannabe poetry maven, however can never seem to pass “Poetry 101”. But Wendell Berry, I understand him. He is my favorite (which, my faithful tens of readers also know, I don’t use the word “favorite” lightly). This...
by Shari Dragovich | Nov 27, 2013 | Faith, Home Front, Nature, Ribbon Box
The trees stand naked now–other than a few stubborn brown oak leaves insistent on hanging to their keeper, pretending they are Spanish moss on old Southern live oaks but looking more like soggy bits of brown paper bag scattered by a gusting wind and caught by...
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...
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