by Janice MacLean | Oct 12, 2019 | Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
A Story about Voting By Cathy MacLean I have voted since I was five years old! Impossible you say. Here’s how it was. Uncle Eddy always took my Grandmother to vote even though she lived with us. The problem was that she was Conservative and our household was Liberal....
by Janice MacLean | Nov 22, 2018 | Spiritual Memoir Resources
After a lifetime of sewing, Kay MacVicar had lots of fabric to work with, so when her church needed a quilt piece to send to the Annual Meeting of Maritime Conference a few years ago, she got to work. What makes this quilt piece so poignant is that is captures the...
by Janice MacLean | May 11, 2018 | Free Stuff, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
ONE: In the beginning there is a Story TWO: told around campfires in the desert ONE: shared around tables when bread was broken. TWO: written on pieces of soft leather ONE: then in pages bound together in a book. TWO: (Holding a Bible.) These are our sacred...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 12, 2018 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
Recipes from the Family Table By Breanna Sharpe “Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.” – Bob Ehrlich I sometimes hear people complain that their parents might be embarrassing, or that their grandparents call too...
by Janice MacLean | Sep 22, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
The Milk House A Reflection by Cathy MacLean The little house on on our property was once a “milk house.” A milk house, as the word implies, was a small building used to keep anything that had to do with “milk” such as skim milk, pails,...
by Janice MacLean | Aug 23, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
Corrine Redden, a talented artist and photographer shares this photograph and her reflection. I remember when I was a little girl, I would ask my dad what’s on the other side of where the universe ends. He would answer, when we think of the universe we are like...
by Janice MacLean | Aug 4, 2017 | Spiritual Memoir Resources
Mrs. Hume, Midwife A Recollection by Eldon Hay, Sackville NB Mrs. Hume was the midwife at my birth, at home, in 1931; she’d been there for older brother Keith, and would be for younger sister Kathleen. She lived in Marvelville. When the time came, Mrs. Hume was...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 7, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
Here is a story that touched my heart. It’s about a Family Bible. You know the one. It was passed down through the ages and every generation added the family births, weddings and deaths. This Family Bible was read to pieces. Literally. The pages were loose,...
by Janice MacLean | Aug 24, 2016 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources
I hold it in my hand, and give it a spin or two. It came into being through a joint effort. My grandmother used the thread that emptied the wooden bobbin. And from it, my grandfather whittled the tiny homemade top. This, I remember. Waiting, while he opened his pocket...
