Author: Linda Highman

The World’s Most Famous Vet

Today (March 31st) is my 104th day in the United Kingdom. I came expecting to travel and hoping to accomplish some personal goals. Among these were to post weekly on my website and to finish writing Doggie Devotionals. Both of these goals have been met! I finished writing Doggie Devotionals five days ago. I wrote […]

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British Idioms 1

I was well into adulthood before I learned the meaning of idiom. Looking through a list of definitions, I found this one from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole.” Having hosted international people, I saw how difficult idioms […]

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WORD’sworth

Let me tell you about the origin of WORD’sworth. It is the title of my website, Linda’s WORD’sworth at https//:lindahighman.com. It began 40 years ago while I was teaching English to grades seven through 12 at North Clackamas Christian School. We had begun doing a yearly senior play which evolved into two annual plays; and […]

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Wensleydale Creamery

Visiting the town of Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales had been suggested in early February. Finally, after weeks of chilly temperatures and Rick’s bad cold and cough, we are on our way! Not only Hawes, our final destination is its cheese factory. Similar in size to the Blue Heron Creamery, a mile or so south […]

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Within Sight

In my last post, I promised a doggie devotional this week. I hope that you enjoy it. ☺️                                                                  “If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love.” John 15:10   NIV My husband of 53 years died in September of ’23, and for the next 15 months I tasked myself with […]

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Change of Plans

“This week I will have been here for two months,” I respond to the friendly woman at church when she asked how long I had been in England. “Oh, how nice! What have you done?” I know that she is actually asking where have I gone to see which sights. Her face, like others before […]

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“Let It Go!”

“Let it go, Chad. Just ignore them.” This was the advice that Kat and Rick gave their son-in-law, Chad. He had called to say that he would not stop by in the morning as was his habit because he didn’t want to lose his cool and make more trouble. A couple of nights previously, the […]

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Computer Purgatory

Are you computer savvy enough to identify the purpose of these directions? “Wait,”  I say to my daughter, my instructor. “The picture is still on the screen.” “Yes, but you also just put it into a folder.” “I know that, but it is still on the screen. You can see it right there.” “Trust me, […]

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Different Meets and Greets

I spent Christmas,1968, with Ed’s family in Ashland, Ohio. What a surprise I had at my first meeting with his family! First, came a customary introduction. Then these people, still strangers, came at me with open arms ready to hug and lips, puckered, ready to kiss! That was not the way my Portland family greeted […]

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The Weird and the Wonderful

            I have finished reading Genesis, the book of beginnings, the first book of the Pentateuch, also known as the Torah. Moses is the human author. He wrote Genesis more than four hundred years after the occurrence of its events; therefore, he was not constrained to protect anyone’s identity. He uses actual names and tells […]

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