String o' Pearls

I am about two-thirds of the way through Theology of Home , a lovely book that was gifted to me recently by one of my daughters-in-law, Prec...

My last post  here at String of Pearls bemoaned the fact that my writing career has been somewhat less than stellar, in terms of worldly su...

I received an email recently that I've been expecting, but it kind of broke my heart a little bit nonetheless.  The publisher of my two ...

Remember this post that I wrote back in May, in which I told the story about how our third- and fourth-born sons and their wives announced ...

Not too long ago, I spent the day taking care of my middle son's three little ones (G-Man-5, Princesa-3, and Rosita-almost 2), while my ...

I meant to write a blog post about my mother-in-law on Nov. 1, her birthday, but family events down here in VA kept me busy and the date got...

I just got back home yesterday, after spending five days staying at the house of son #4 and his wife, Braveheart.  I went over there because...