by Leslie Sholly | Mar 6, 2012 | FIRE, Gratitude, pets
This morning, the first thing on the agenda is to take Mace to the vet for his first set of shots. Mace is one of three now half-grown kittens who adopted us when we moved here. We didn’t start off being cat people. John never had a cat growing up. In fact,...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 5, 2012 | FIRE, home decor
For seven years, our family lived here: It was built in 1889, and parts of it didn’t seem to have been replaced since then. It had been patched and smoothed over so that we did not realize what we were getting into until it began to disintegrate around us. We...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 27, 2012 | Catholicism, FIRE
“If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” As Christians, our lives are supposed to be our witness. In the Gospel of John (13:35), Jesus said to His disciples: “By this all men will know that you are...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 24, 2012 | books, FIRE
We had eleven bookshelves in our last home. Several were floor-to-ceiling and almost all were full. And there were boxes in the garage, and stacks and stacks all over the house. And we were always buying more. The loss of my books was a tragedy of a magnitude I...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 23, 2012 | FIRE, Parenting, teenagers
This week my life became simultaneously easier and harder. Â Explain, you ask? Â Well, over the weekend we acquired a new (to us) car (more on that in a moment). Â So no longer do I have to drive Teddy to school while John drives Lorelei. Â Teddy gets to drive himself!...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 16, 2012 | FIRE, Georgetown
That’s how long ago it’s been, as of today, that John and I have been a couple. Â On February 16, 1987, he asked me if I would be interested in going out with him, and I bet if he could have seen the future, he would have run the other way instead. Â But I...