Author Archives: colleenjmalone

Through the years, my grower friends, Betty, Nellie, Lauren, Greg, Connie, Angela (times 2) have pointed out plants that serve as host plants to butterflies. Dill and fennel for yellow swallowtails, milkweed for monarchs, plus many others. My theory has become, “If a butterfly wants it, I’ll try to grow it.“ More Milkweed pictures willContinue reading ““Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme”…and dill and fennel”

I visited a small United Methodist church with my mother. I didn’t know a whole lot about this church, except I have known the pastor for years from her work in the community and her reputation as an insightful and good teacher, and her faithful duties as pastor to two churches over probably 20 years.Continue reading “Belligerent Pessimism”

When epic things like the war in Ukraine happen, I honor in my heart all who die and give their lives unselfishly for others. They save countless lives by their sacrifice. It takes me back in time and memory to 1995 when the A.P. Murray Building in Oklahoma was bombed. At that time, my nieceContinue reading “God Calls Us To Pray”

As I was outside working on a project, I was thinking to myself, “This just isn’t working out!” An old saying popped into my head, “If you wanna make God laugh, just tell Him you have a plan!”😂 I’m an over-thinker. I know it. I own it. I can even laugh at myself about it.Continue reading “ProbRes”

“By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For they that carried us away required of us a song, and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, ‘Sing us one of the songs ofContinue reading “Singing God’s Song in a Strange Land”