The Stokes Kith and Kin Community Blog

I am in a Bible Study group that meets on-line each week.  Every now and then, I write a follow-up to our discussion.  This is one of those ...

Years ago, I discovered Abebooks.com, a site that aggregates the inventories of used book sellers (hereinafter "Abe").  When I wou...

  When I was a young associate at S&T in the 1970s, the firm had a single office location, like most other law offices in Miami at the t...

A  few months after we moved permanently to Austin, we joined an Anglican church in the south part of the city.  Both of our sons and their ...

  For Father's Day last month, Mary gave me a bag of coffee beans and a couple of books. One of the books is an historical novel by Mich...

 I'm looking at eggnog recipes in a cookbook that was a wedding present to Carol and me 51-plus years ago, Joy of Cooking  by Irma S. Ro...

 During 2019, we were able to buy our Austin home at a good price, in part because it was not in tip-top shape.  So, along with the house, w...

 My Sunday School Class (now on-line) last Sunday morning considered verses 1 through 21 of chapter 6 of the Gospel of John.  We covered the...

In September, Mindy Belz wrote in World Magazine, under the title An explosive reckoning for Beirut: A record blast leaves opportunities and...

"All the money we have—the money in our wallets and purses, in our checking accounts, the money that fuels the stock market—all money...

Saturday, I attended a talk by Raquel Roque at the Miami Springs branch of the Miami Public Library.  Raquel's "Downtown Book Ce...

In order to get to the coffee in our office, which is in our kitchen, one must walk through the lunch room.  The lunch room has a table an...

Eight days ago, a Saturday, I took my Honda walk-behind but self-propelled lawnmower to Ace Lawnmower Service for maintenance .  I needed th...

It is summer, and the garden grows, everything in it, higher, faster, each element with its own imperative, seeking to be unruled and unmana...