Category: Best of

• On Turning 50: Discoveries and Delights about God, Myself, and the World

  Big birthdays provide opportunities to celebrate and reflect. In honor of turning fifty on Monday, I thought it would be fun to share with you my list of 50 discoveries and delights as I reflect on my life at this point. May they bring a smile to your face, and perhaps, a nod or two…

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  November 14, 2020

  2020, Best of, Books to Read, Cooking, Covid, Faith, Family life, Favorites, Grad school life, Hospitality, Marriage, Middle School English, Out-of-the-Ordinary

  Best of, books to read, COVID-19, Faith, Family Relationships, Marriage, Out-of-the-Ordinary, Pandemic, Relationships, Turning 50, Zoom

• Best of: The Virtue of Mundane Tasks

  April has arrived, signaling spring along with the promise of budding trees and flowering bulbs. Normally, those of us in the northern hemisphere would feel the beginnings of hope, knowing that sooner rather than later, winter would release its hold. Yet, here we are—gripped by a global pandemic and wondering if the normal we once…

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  April 4, 2020

  2020, Best of, Domesticity, The Everyday, The Ordinary, Work

  COVID-19, Housekeeeping, The Mundane, The Ordinary, Work

• Best of: Big Bend Revisited

  In my first post of 2020, I mentioned that I have been writing in this space for almost ten years. I first called the blog AlwaysOrange, but in recent years changed the name to aliciabrummeler.com. While I don’t have plans to stop blogging, I thought it would be memorable throughout 2020 to mark this milestone…

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  February 18, 2020

  Backpacking, Best of, Creation, Favorites, Parenting, Travel

  Backpacking, Best of, Big Bend National Park, Family Relationships, Memories, Winter Break