By Ginger Kauffman Perhaps you have seen this image on Facebook, a visual description of the left and right sides of the brain. I am a very, very right brain and can easily get lost in the clearly-laid-out pathways of the logical left side. Take bookkeeping, for example. More specifically, take budgeting. A straight...
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by Ginger Kauffman I took the bus yesterday, for the first time in many years. It was just a short trip and the sun was bright. I should have walked, but I took the bus instead. When it was time to pull the cord that would notify the driver I wanted off at the...
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by Ginger Kauffman I wasn’t in the mood for a romance novel, not at all. I had no intention of reading this book. But before I put it in the go-back-to-the-library pile I thought I’d just thumb through it. Next thing you know, I was hooked! The Longing Season by Christine Schaub is set...
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by Ginger Kauffman I remember from my school days that occasionally a sadistic teacher would make unruly students copy pages from the dictionary while the rest of us went out for recess. And maybe once or twice I have met people who read the dictionary, just for fun. Well, now I have come across...
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by Ginger Kauffman These are hard times for people of my generation. Two of our childhood favorites may soon disappear — Hostess Twinkies and Kellogg’s Corn Pops. The sentimental value of these, shall we say, foods is much greater than the nutritional value, but sentiment counts for a lot. When we read recently that...
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by Ginger Kauffman I love hymns, but maybe you already knew that. As I was growing up, each time we went to church — Sunday morning, Sunday evening and Wednesday evening — we sang. We had two hymnals, an older green one which we usually sang from in the evenings, and the “red hymnal”...
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by Ginger Kauffman In the early days of our marriage we made a lot of bread, yeast bread that involves you up to your elbows. It was all new to me (I’d never worked with yeast before) but Tom was a seasoned baker. He’d experimented with it over the years so much that he...
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by Ginger Kauffman I was digging through my dresser drawers, desperate for a set of shoelaces. I didn’t find any that would meet my need, but I did find a veritable time capsule of my life in those drawers. My college roommate was an art major. She made art look fun — and easy....
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By Ginger Kauffman Two planes leave Los Angeles, one after the other. They follow the same route assigned by Air Traffic Control but their paths diverge by 3.3 degrees. Plane A arrives at its destination, Washington DC’s Dulles Airport, and Plane B touches down at JFK in New York City. Just a small change...
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Our family will be together for breakfast on Christmas morning. It’s the first breakfast we’ve shared since some time in May, and this mama is so looking forward to it. I will love going to the Christmas Eve service with Tom and both our boys, enjoying a wonderful Christmas Eve salmon dinner together, everyone...
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