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True Love Finds a Way: Walking the Salt Path

True Love Finds a Way: Walking the Salt Path

by MarianBeaman | May 14, 2025 | Award, blog, book review, British History, Conflict, Memory, Quotations, Travel, Uncategorized

What if you lost your home? lost your livelihood? had a dire diagnosis?   With triple trauma, Raynor Winn, armed with Paddy Dillon’s guidebook and husband Moth with a copy of Beowulf, embark on a 630-mile walk on the sea-swept South West Coast Path. From Somerset...
Take a Break with Liz Gauffreau’s Pleasant Haiku

Take a Break with Liz Gauffreau’s Pleasant Haiku

by MarianBeaman | Aug 22, 2024 | blog, book review, Family / Nostalgia, Nostalgia, Reflection, Travel, Uncategorized

I am pleased to be part of author Liz Gauffreau’s blog tour, Day 10. To date, I’ve read Distant Flickers to which Liz contributed a short story and reviewed two of her books, Grief Songs and now Simple Pleasures. Liz shows up regularly to comment on my blog posts....
The Blowout: Part 2

The Blowout: Part 2

by MarianBeaman | May 15, 2024 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Neighborhood / Environment, popular culture, Southern lady friends, Tips, Travel, Uncategorized

Back-up to The Blowout, part 1: How last week’s installment ended: As the morning progressed though, Cliff and I wrestled with unspoken questions: Can we still enjoy a leisurely evening and supper, spending overnight in Valdosta? (We had packed suitcases in...
The Blowout

The Blowout

by MarianBeaman | May 8, 2024 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Conflict, Family / Nostalgia, Memory, Reflection, Travel, Uncategorized

Out of the blue there was an ear-splitting BOOM above our heads. Cliff and I looked at each other dumbfounded, jaws dropping. Apparently, the shattering of thousands of glass shards followed the BOOM in the Subaru’s moon roof. We had traveled about seventy miles west...
Ted’s Wild Adventure in the Snow

Ted’s Wild Adventure in the Snow

by MarianBeaman | Jan 31, 2024 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, Gratitude, Quotations, Travel, Uncategorized

Cold in Florida The weather has been rough this January by Florida standards. Not rough like in Winnepeg, Manitoba or Litchfield, Maine, but rough enough to potentially kill plants. At 31° Fahrenheit, the Beamans have had to cover their tender plants with tarps....
Brewing Tea, Recycling Specs, and Feeling Happy

Brewing Tea, Recycling Specs, and Feeling Happy

by MarianBeaman | Jan 18, 2023 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Gratitude, Lists, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, popular culture, Quotations, Tips, Travel

At Christmas, I got a special gift from my sister Jean: Mennotea, a present guaranteed to warm my heart and recall my Mennonite childhood. Grandma Longenecker’s mint tea in china cups and Mother’s gallon jugs of summertime tea instantly came to mind....
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