Welcome to Daily Encouragement!
Hi, I’m Charlene Notgrass. I was born a long time before you, way back in 1953. I loved homeschooling — once I learned how to make homeschooling who our family was instead of something I carried around like a big, heavy burden every day. From the lessons God has taught me, I offer you daily encouragement.
Fuzzy, Furry, and Warm
My very busy parents were great about making the six-hour drive from Tennessee to central Illinois to visit us again and again during the eight years we lived in Illinois. I always appreciated it so much. We have great memories…
Grocery Store Tales V
On Tuesday morning while my Mother and I did errands, I ran into a chain building supply store to buy a ceiling fan and received good service from a female employee. After she carried it to the check-out, she handed…
Grocery Store Tales IV
When we were newly married, Ray and I met a couple at church. The Mrs. was the first person I remember meeting who was “into” healthy living. This was something of a curiosity to us back in 1976. One day…
Grocery Store Tales III
Measurements matter at the grocery store. Ray and I can each buy a sixteen-ounce bottle of kombucha and finish it before we get home from the store. With some onion, green pepper, two or three pints of marinara sauce, and some pasta,…
Grocery Store Tales II
Don’t ask me what this photographer was aiming at when he took this picture, but here we are, Mother, Steve, and me, in front of Boyd’s Market. I must have been about six years old. I’m sure that Mother had…
Grocery Store Tales I
When I was a girl, I went to Daddy Leland’s grocery store almost every day. I felt at home all over the store–in the aisles where Daddy put up stock, at the checkout stand with Earlene the checker, in the butcher department with…