dnoblewrites5 days ago4 minBrighten The Corner Where You Are Brighten the Corner Where You Are “Brighten the corner where you are; Brighten the corner where you are….” That’s an old song…a very old...
dnoblewritesApr 152 minThere Will Always Be That One Egg...I love Easter. As a Christian, my primary reason for the joy I feel is obvious. But Easter has been extra special to me since Zach was...
dnoblewritesMar 73 min Lessons From Petunias One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. ~Psalm 145:4 I love walking out my back door in...
dnoblewritesJan 12 min"You're Welcome" ~Love, God When we think about God saying, “You are welcome,” we think about things like answering our prayers for a job, protecting our...
dnoblewritesDec 4, 20212 min"Momma, why does Santa love some kids more than he loves me?" If you've been a Momma D follower for a while you may recognize this post from previous years posted about this same time. Yes, it's a...
dnoblewritesNov 26, 20214 minChristmas is NOT Synonymous with 'Supply Chain'--I Repeat...The Two are not Synonymous Way back in the middle of the summer while I was still up to my eyeballs (literally) in yellow squash, green beans, and cucumbers, the...
dnoblewritesOct 24, 20212 minMotivate...Stimulate...Celebrate!During my most recent trip to California, my four-year-old, book-loving Josephine asked me to read “The Pout Pout Fish” again. And again....
dnoblewritesAug 29, 20213 minTurtles, Chicks, Pigs, Lizards...and LaneyBack when my now-eight-year-old granddaughter, Laney, was less than a year old, I shared a story with all of you about her first...
dnoblewritesAug 21, 20212 minPlease Pass the Memories With Lost ArtsThis week is part three of our "Please Pass the Memories" series. This week I want to talk about 'lost arts'. Lost arts like baking from...
dnoblewritesAug 4, 20212 minA Picture is Worth 1,000 Words and a Whole Lot of Memories, Too! Who doesn’t enjoy looking through photo albums? The answer: No one. Everybody enjoys looking at the images of smiling faces, families...
dnoblewritesJul 23, 20213 minGreat Big Beliefs in a Great Big God At the onset of the pandemic a lot of people...a whole lot of people 'got' what I call a tea bag kind of religion. You can't see any sign...
dnoblewritesJul 10, 20213 minPlease Pass the Memories...Kitchen Style These days it seems we can't get through the day without hearing words like 'gender neutral', 'birthing person', and 'trans this or...
dnoblewritesJun 20, 20214 min It's Not About Unfamiliar Walls The year was 1987—July of 1987, to be exact. I buckled my two children into the car and headed back to Rolla to help Granny pack up her...
dnoblewritesJun 6, 20212 minFAITH IS LIKE CHOCOLATEYou probably don’t remember the first time you tasted chocolate, do you? The first piece of chocolate to touch your lips probably came...
dnoblewritesMay 21, 20213 minOkay, So Maybe the Fog Truck Wasn't Such a Good Idea, But....I am a child of the 60s--1960 to be exact. I was three years old when President Kennedy was assassinated, but I still remember my mom...
dnoblewritesMay 7, 20213 min SHOWING SHEEPAs a farm family, every summer found us participating in fairs. The work that went into getting ready for these fairs wasn’t easy, but...
dnoblewritesApr 25, 20213 minLittle Helping Hands and Great Big Loving Hearts Who likes the movie, “Lady and the Tramp”? I do. Well, for the most part, anyway. I don’t like the cats. They’re creepy. I don’t like Peg...
dnoblewritesApr 11, 20213 minDon't Use Serving God as an Excuse for not Being Like JesusIn Jesus' parable about the Good Samaritan, we meet a Jewish priest and a Levite who took the same route to travel from Jerusalem to...
dnoblewritesFeb 26, 20212 minGray Not Look Good On Me My daughter Elizabeth was less than two years old when she announced she wouldn't wear the color gray because in her words, "Gray not...
dnoblewritesFeb 13, 20214 minChurch 101I wrote two or three different drafts of this article before finally calling it good. It wasn't that I didn't know what I wanted it to...