Some good reading material

For those who know me, you know I love to read. On this trip I've read some good ones. Three, in fact. No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland recounts Agnes' life in the wilds - literally - of New Mexico during the late 1800's, early 1900's. It's up to the reader to decide if this is a life and a place for a lady or for a, well, what can I say - a "cowgirl"? Or maybe for both? It certainly reminded me page after fascinating page of the incredibly EASY life we live today - maybe it's too easy, who's to say?

Then I read Out of Africa, by Winnifred Green and Gayle Roper. Four years of the letters and recollections of Dallas and Winnifred Green - from their medical and missionary work with the African Inland Mission in Sudan, form the basis of this fascinating and sometimes frightening book. Dallas is now minister of missions and mercy at Calvary Fellowship Church and his son Carl is one of the pastors, if I understand it correctly.

Last but definitely not least is Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon. Anyone who has read - and loved - the Mitford Series, will love this book as well. Father Timothy goes home to his childhood home of Holly Springs and rediscovers not just childhood places, but childhood friends, loved ones and even enemies who now become friends. And he rediscovers himself in a way he could never have imagined. Read it! But not until you've read all the other Mitford books!