The undiscovered country
High Lonesome
- Location
- Southwest desert and mountains, U.S.
- Birthday
- June 06
- Title
- Hey, could you ...?
- Company
- Sometimes
- Bio
- Pastor, maker of tents, writer, naturalist, mother to many, wife to one, woman of the sandwich generation.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I'm trying to figure out
which of those cities is
nearest.
It's at least a
two-ho…”
3:13PM - “I remember the Five
Little Peppers!
More
to the point, we have an
entire shelf of…”
6:16PM - “There can be no such
thing as a Presbyterian
conspiracy. We
can't do
anything wit…”
March 18, 2010 01:57PM - “I agree; the problems we
blame on marriage so often
are
caused by life
circumstan…”
March 16, 2010 03:02PM - “Thanks, all. I was
mainly just boggled by the
picture of
three towels in a
tote.…”
March 16, 2010 11:30AM
High Lonesome's Links
The house, 40-some years ago
We live in an old house in an old town that was never, by anyone’s estimation, rich. We don’t have fancy Victorians; we have functional homes — err, sort of.
Our house was originally a one-story L-shaped frame house. At… Read full post »
A postcard for a
sister-mom
Yesterday a poster here shared some frustration over her children. The response was extremely supportive, except for one person who said something that must surely have felt to the original poster like, “It’s all your fault; you’re inadequate… Read full post »

My husband and I received a note today from a man who just buried his wife of 60 years. Instead of the standard note thanking us for cards, flowers, food and prayers, this one just says, “Thank you for eating cherries with me when I needed a friend.”
I was very near the center of the 1993 outbreak of a "new" disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, in the Four Corners, so I'm not quite as prone to panic over the swine flu as many people seem to be. Here are excerpts from a presentation I sometimes gave to a university… Read full post »
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