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A lit lantern in the dark

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Dan Millman...

Robots and roast chicken

I am writing on a nice sunny day that feels like early Autumn. It's as if we skipped summer altogether. As much as I love Autumn and do...

Urban Homesteading?

The statistic shows the degree of urbanization in Canada from 2010 to 2020 and details the percentage of the entire population, living in...

Quick reno update and some news!

As you may know, we had started renovations back in November. We had a new little shed built and the upstairs was to be renovated first....

Christmas Imagination

"Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. Max Lucado "Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to...

Co-creating by adding warmth to everyday life

“A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level,...

A grocery store for Mrs. Sparrow and her friends.

The weather here in Nova Scotia has been off by a couple of months for the past few years. Autumns run well into November now. I took...

Welcome to the Urban Cottage!

It has been about 9 years since I last blogged. A link to my previous blog written years ago, on grieving the loss of my daughter, is in...