by Robin Farnsworth | Jun 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
It was clearly a man’s world, the hardware store in downtown Old Greenwich. And I felt part honored and part trespasser when I followed my dad through the door . It was Saturday morning, part of a ritual my dad kept, probably to keep himself grounded after a week of...
by Robin Farnsworth | Apr 9, 2022 | Faith, Hope, Uncategorized
Behind the house, within the backyard, is another yard enclosed in a chain link fence. When I first saw it, I thought the other yard was an odd cutout of the neighbors yard. Why else would you run a chain link fence through a nice looking yard? But the fence had been...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jan 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Twenty years ago the 26th of this month, I gazed upon the lifeless body of the boy who made me mom. Spencer was a few weeks short of 22, a young man really, but always a boy to his mom, as I point out to my other two sons, who are now fully men. Twenty years. It...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 30, 2021 | Blog Post, Faith, Loss, Love
We don’t have a title! I wasn’t quite sure I understood my friend, sitting across her living room from me. What? We don’t have a title. You know, like woman who have lost their husbands are called “widows.” But mothers who have lost a child...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 21, 2021 | Blog Post, Hope, Random
***After writing several Thanksgiving blogs, here is a repost honoring the day after. And giving thanks for Work! “The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work...
