A farewell to a lamp April 26, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window As I turned the switch, the lamp started falling over onto my arm. I caught it and realized there were bits and pieces of the base spread all over the floor.
7 poems in 7 styles that may just bring out 7 smiles (7 Quick Takes) April 25, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window National Poetry Month will be coming to a close soon, so these 7 takes are written in 7 different poetic forms.
Finding hope in the beauty of God’s creation April 21, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized God’s fingerprints are everywhere, and this spring I spot gift after gift from our Creator. The greatest gift, of course, is today.
I could write a sonnet about everything we did during the octave of Easter (7 Quick Takes) April 16, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window My niece, Elise, challenged me to write this week’s 7 Quick Takes in sonnet form. April is National Poetry Month, after all. I think she believes—and rightly so—that I turn too often to limericks. And I do love a challenge.
Schoolwork at Home (A mother’s lament in rhyme) April 15, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window “Mom I am.Oh, Mom I am. I love to be just Mom I am. What’s that? Here comes a quarantine? But what could all that home time mean?” “Here comes the schoolwork—there’s a lot. So make sure that each day you plot.” “I’m teaching math? And ELA? Can’t we just let the kids go play?” […]
Becoming an at-home hairstylist? Tips to avoid a hairy situation April 13, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized Here are a few tips if you find yourself starting your own home salon.
The beauty of Holy Saturday, our Lenten prayer basket, schoolwork, and a yummy mac and cheese recipe (7 Quick Takes) April 11, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Recipes Holy Saturday is such a powerful day. It’s a day of quiet. A day of transition. Today we stand between the sorrow of Good Friday and the joy of Easter. It is a peaceful, hopeful, expectant day.
As we await the Resurrection April 10, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window Somehow in this time of anxiety and indefinite quarantine, when so much seems uncertain, we seem to be primed for those moments of happy discovery—those moments when we see how much we are loved by God and by others.
The bird at the feeder April 7, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window We’ve waited. We’ve watched. And the bird feeder has hung there, full of seeds no one was eating.
Not the Holy Week we expected April 5, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window Let’s find small and simple ways to walk with Jesus this Holy Week.
April is the perfect time to share these seven takes in rhyme April 2, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Happy National Poetry Month!
Three kisses for Tomie dePaola March 31, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Saints We could never get enough of Tomie dePaola’s illustrations and stories. But what he has left behind for us will have to be enough to read over and over again.
