Karen MainsMedicine for Mouth DiseaseWhen Mainstay Ministries produced six broadcasts per week (for twenty years), taped one television show per day (for six years), and…Sep 8, 2022Sep 8, 2022
Karen MainsText Neck: Now What Are We Doing to Ourselves?One of the modern activities that irritate me some, but alarm me considerably, is that even in a restaurant, sitting around a table, a…Aug 30, 2022Aug 30, 2022
Karen MainsFIVE SIGNED PRINTSWe turned the little downstairs bedroom (which two sons have inhabited, in addition to various live-ins, my brother-in-law’s gardener — a…Aug 26, 2022Aug 26, 2022
Karen MainsA Prayer for Obscene Telephone CallersOnce, years ago, an obscene phone caller contacted me on our home phone. I won’t repeat the venom he spewed over the phone line — but just…Aug 12, 2022Aug 12, 2022
Karen MainsWho Will Fix The Hole?In front of Señora Margarita’s house, right beneath her door, a crack opened in the street.Aug 3, 2022Aug 3, 2022
Karen MainsPlanting Gardens Above Calle Mayor: Alcalá, SPAINOn my first morning in Alcalá, Spain, my sleep was interrupted by what sounded like a dissonant cowbell, irregularly rung. Clunkg-clunkg…Jul 12, 2022Jul 12, 2022
Karen MainsFixing Things UpWhen it comes to fixing things up, my husband, David, and I are the kind of people who take a while to get around to the tasks at hand. The…Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Karen MainsMis-stepsOne of the great assets of keeping a daily journal (which I have done now for 59 years) is reading back over the life you once lived, the…May 7, 2022May 7, 2022
Karen Mains“Karen! WATCH OUT!!!”I heard a muffled warning through the ear protectors I was wearing. Six women — all friends — had traveled with me from the Chicago area…Apr 13, 2022Apr 13, 2022
Karen MainsYou Find What You Look ForHas anyone ever pronounced this truism over you? “Well, you find what you look for.”Apr 11, 2022Apr 11, 2022