by applewooddollhospital | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Essays
I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David. The argument being made was the very notion that the church would hold King David in any kind of esteem proved just how anti-woman and patriarchal the church is. He used his...
by applewooddollhospital | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog, Essays
I committed a sin that was particularly embarrassing for me. Whenever I commit a sin that is particularly embarrassing, I think of the early Christians who used to stand up and do their...
by applewooddollhospital | Jul 17, 2021 | Blog, Book Reviews
And 5 Others That Didn’t Help by Benajmin Wiker A Book Review: If you are a busy parent with oatmeal brain but would still like to learn about the string of various philosophies that have gotten us to where we are today in the world, this is the book for you....
by applewooddollhospital | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog, Essays
In the course of busy, we were interrupted by unexpected visitors. At the most, we tend to only find three or four Monarch caterpillars on our milkweed. This year, there were close to twenty. And a month early, to boot! They ate all but four branches of my milkweed...
by applewooddollhospital | Jun 22, 2021 | Blog, Essays
Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry. It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and abandoned as writing from the heart and applying such Draconian restrictions to it as 5 syllables followed by 7 syllables and...