Author Archives: Donna Coulson
Dealing with evil
I’m trying to find a balance between reading the news and isolating myself. I’m doing this for self-preservation – watching what is happening in the country that I love dearly hurts. It frightens me. It makes me mad. It makes me want to DO something. Evil seems to be taking over. When someone walks up … Continue reading
Fruits of our Labors
I’m a little late for my Labor Day blog this week, um, I was laboring to get everything in our yard taken care of before the SNOW arrived on Tuesday. Yikes. Anyway, we’ve been laboring since February on building a garage in our back yard, then contouring, landscaping, and having sod laid on the property. … Continue reading
Soaring
Karl and I and four dear friends just spent the weekend in Steamboat Springs. One of the reasons we chose this weekend was because there was a Balloon Rodeo scheduled. While I’ve always wanted to go to a balloon festival, it hadn’t ever worked out before. Until Saturday morning, I’d only seen a few individual … Continue reading
The large and small of life
I love exploring. It’s so fun to take a hike or drive down a road new to me. I love topping the crest of a mountain and having a 360 degree view I’ve never seen before. Witnessing a grand expanse, soaking in the range of colors and textures in the miles spread before me gives … Continue reading
The Power of Encouragement
When I finished my first novel, Mountain Time. I had my daughter and my husband read and edit it, but no one else, and certainly no one outside the family. It was really scary to publish it, wondering if anyone would like my little story. After it was in print, I made myself be brave … Continue reading
Unplugging- part two
So far this summer, we’ve spent nearly four weeks in the camper, enjoying friends and embracing solitude. On our latest trip (we got home last night), we rode about 130 miles all together on our four-wheelers. Please understand that most of the ‘roads’ we ride on are rock-strewn paths through the forest, not fit for … Continue reading
Silent Minute Challenge
A week or so ago, my friend Wynn invited Karl and me to join her and other believers in a project. It seems that during the Blitz in London in 1940, a man named Major Wellesley Tudor-Pole began asking those he knew to stop and pray for England for one minute each evening “during the … Continue reading
Unplugging – part one
So far, 2020 has been a difficult road to travel for us all. I’m deeply thankful that Karl and I have just had the ability to unplug, disengage, and step back for a while. We hooked on to the trailer, added our four-wheelers to the ‘train’, and took off for a couple of weeks. First … Continue reading
Now that I’m 64!
I was twenty-seven when Karl and I got married. As our recessional song for the wedding, we chose the Beatles song When I’m Sixty-Four. It was a light-hearted choice, thirty-seven years into the future was an eternity. Well, I turned sixty-four this past weekend, and it seems to me a good time to revisit and … Continue reading
Concrete History
You know I’m a history geek, so of course I have to be a little geeky about the house I live in. I’ve mentioned before that our house was built in 1955, and that we bought it from the original owners. To commemorate their new home way back when the original concrete was poured for … Continue reading
