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Ebenezer

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 5 Comments

The smell of wood smoke rises from the old stone chimney of the Ramble In if my eyes are closed and my head held at a proper tilt. I can feel the thin Rocky Mountain air in my well-adapted young lungs and hear pine needle covered trails crunch under my feet as I scramble up, … Continue reading Ebenezer

Dominick and the Duck

June 6, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 5 Comments

Far far away, many many years ago in a Kindergarten classroom on the last day of school, five-year old Dominick gave me a little clay duck. Well, I've always called it a duck but truthfully its identity is a bit vague. You decide. To reveal the immediate thought that ran through my head might paint … Continue reading Dominick and the Duck

A Whittled Goodbye

March 30, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 9 Comments

There were a lot of words on this page just a few minutes ago. It felt a little silly when all I really want to say is, "thank you." So I whittled a tree down to a toothpick. Writing an occasional word to you has been a unique journey for me, a steep learning curve … Continue reading A Whittled Goodbye

Mrs. Farkas

March 26, 2022March 27, 2022 / Molly Mitchell / 4 Comments

On a narrow street in a small city in Idaho there lived an unassuming little lady who saved our family's musical bacon. She really did. No two ways about it. Ruth Farkas of Koster Street. She was a missing puzzle piece we didn't know we needed. Roxanne's very first piano lesson on Koster Street At … Continue reading Mrs. Farkas

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

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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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