by Deb Farris | Dec 23, 2024 | Advent, Devotions, Faith, Writing
Part II of II Part I click here or just continue reading❤️ As Muriel reassembled herself at the table, she said, “The first woman in the list of Jesus’s Family Tree is Tamar. She committed adultery. Do you remember who with?” “No,” Miriam shook her head. She was...
by Deb Farris | Dec 22, 2024 | Advent, Devotions, Faith, Writing
Part I of II Find Part II here “Who does she think she is,” Leonora said as she leaned in to her friend Lucy. Lucy glared back and shushed Leonora as the two boys sitting in front of the girls turned around. Leonora sat up straight, lifted her chin and gave the...
by Deb Farris | Dec 6, 2024 | Advent, Musings, Writing
We’re almost to the second Sunday in Advent. I was thinking about sharing a post from last year about Joy and Peace…but…instead, well, let’s just say when you open your hands and bow your head before moving the pen across the page, plans change. Maybe it was a...
by Deb Farris | Apr 21, 2021 | Family, Memoir, Musings, Pets, Travels
As the story goes, up until twenty-three-and-a-half years ago, I had been looking for love in all the wrong places. Then one snowy winter night in the Midwest, I came to an impasse. Standing on a street corner beneath the glow of a streetlamp, stood a tall man in a...
by Deb Farris | Apr 19, 2021 | Memoir, Musings
busy carpenter bees buzzing crashing against farmhouse windows as i sit looking out to the shenandoah mountains far off in the distance horses stand still, statuesque one tail sweeps, a single hoof lifts, tilting into an elegant stance, the dancer’s b+ position,...