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The Streets of Laredo

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 6 Comments

Question for you: What's more important, striving to be the descendant that previous generations would be proud of? Or working every day to become an ancestor that future generations would want to claim as theirs? You think on that for a while and we'll circle back. Very briefly I'd like to sum up what's been … Continue reading The Streets of Laredo

Heat in the Pipes

March 8, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 1 Comment

The following was written 2 1/2 years ago. Much has changed. All these words still hold true but contain an additional brightness, an urgency to be noticed. We do not know if those we interacted with are still living. We do not know if the buildings we entered and enjoyed are still standing. What we … Continue reading Heat in the Pipes

The Homestead of Hope

February 3, 2022February 8, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 5 Comments

Entering the world at the tail end of the Baby Boomers and growing up in the 60s and 70s, my decorative surroundings were very much oriented to flower power, wood paneling, wicker swag lamps, and David Cassidy posters. Strangely though, my wandering daydreams often took me to a time a hundred years prior when life … Continue reading The Homestead of Hope

Wheat Pennies

January 9, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 3 Comments

Across the speckled linoleum floor of Room 16 at Martin Park Elementary in 1968 stood a line of 2nd graders waiting to leave for lunch. As they did every day, each boy or girl passed by Mrs. Mullis at the door and answered questions regarding their possession of pennies -- not just any pennies -- … Continue reading Wheat Pennies

A Song in the Air

December 16, 2021December 17, 2021 / Molly Mitchell / 8 Comments

If you dig a little deeper past Deck the Halls, Jingle Bells, Frosty the Snowman, and even popular Christmas hymns like Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, and O Little Town of Bethlehem, you will find more obscure yet serenely beautiful Advent music. Could be you're familiar with many of them, but as … Continue reading A Song in the Air

Beulah Land and Betty Lou

October 23, 2021 / Molly Mitchell / 15 Comments

My blessed mother-in-law started talking about her funeral somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 years ago so we "kids" became accustomed to nodding and smiling and "mmhmming" when that inevitable topic came up. Now we're all sitting around on couches holding cups of cold coffee staring blankly at each other wondering what to do because … Continue reading Beulah Land and Betty Lou

The Death of Roy

October 1, 2021October 1, 2021 / Molly Mitchell / 3 Comments

My friend Roy died of cancer when I was 14. He was 16. There was a funeral at the United Methodist Church and all of us teens who were in the youth group with him sat together and cried in varying degrees, dealing with wretched emotions as our young years both allowed and forced us … Continue reading The Death of Roy

We Shout Out Hooray

September 8, 2021 / Molly Mitchell / 4 Comments

In the quest for the shortest blog post ever, this one will most likely qualify. First, let me show you a photo of the first page of my planning notebook where I copied these verses about six months ago. It was a dark time, friends. Not a time without hope. But pretty cloudy. Today I … Continue reading We Shout Out Hooray

A Thousand Little Dots

August 22, 2021August 25, 2021 / Molly Mitchell / 8 Comments

Her name was Betty Ruth Flynt but I called her Barf. You can't buy good friends like that--ones who will lovingly call you, "Barf." I figured since I was not allowed to utter the middle name "Ruth," that "Barf" was the next best choice as her initials were just asking for it. Junior High. What … Continue reading A Thousand Little Dots

The Year (Day) to the Left of Sixty

August 4, 2021 / Molly Mitchell / 4 Comments

Twenty-something years ago I started writing a series of short essays/devotionals which were to be compiled into a book titled, "The Year to the Left of Forty." They're still in my desk file drawer with a couple of additions and a scratched-in retitle -- yes, you guessed it -- "The Year to the Left of … Continue reading The Year (Day) to the Left of Sixty

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Molly Mitchell claims her greatest accomplishment is that she can call herself the mother of four. That’s always and forever number one on the list and still chokes her up after all these years. She’s happily married to Bob, whom she chose when he sang a glorious honey-toned bass part behind her in choir at college. (He found out later he’d been chosen but true to form was a good sport about it.) There are perfect grandchildren, of course.

She’s had a variety of jobs over the years, some involving professional writing and editing. Other jobs not so much, and those may become blog fodder. She hopes you’ll find joy or at least a bit of entertainment in these pages, and above all, a healthy dose of Christian encouragement.

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