New Web Address for Grits and Purls

We here at Grits and Purls have become a little more savvy with our web site URL. The new Grits and Purls site now exists at http://gritsandpurls.wordpress.com That site has all of our existing content and it is where you will find new and exciting things to read from Grits and Purls writers.

The Humble Button

“Nothing feeds the center so much as creative work, even humble kinds like cooking and sewing. Baking bread, weaving cloth, putting up preserves, teaching and singing to children must have been far more nourishing than being the family chauffeur or shopping at supermarkets or doing housework with mechanical aids. The art and craft of housework [...]

A Father’s Example

You may think that I’m talking foolish You’ve heard that I’m wild and I’m free You may wonder how I can promise you now This love that I feel for you always will be Somehow in Texas country music sounds better than it does anywhere else. It belongs. I was living in Texas when I [...]

Christmas Chocolate Octagon Cookies

For those of you following the Chocolate Christmas Octagon Cookie Story, here are the results.

The Twelve Days of Christmas (Wisconsin Style)

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me A Harley Road King in the garage On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me Two Milton Red Hawks And a Harley Road King in the garage On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me [...]