Lighting Up My World

Finding Sermons in the Everyday

The Spider

Posted on February 19, 2021December 18, 2023 by Evie Allen

I have a new friend that lives in my backyard. It’s a little pale orangey-white spider, maybe a half-inch in size, and it lives behind a ceramic basket that’s hanging on a post of the patio cover. It probably chose this place because it’s relatively undisturbed most of the time. Continue Reading

I was born and raised in Southern California and have lived here my entire life. My life began in the San Fernando Valley, but early on my family moved to the South Bay area of Los Angeles County and that is where I spent my formative years, with the Pacific Ocean practically in our front yard. The steep hills of our little beach community are where I learned to ride a bike, roller skate, maneuver a skateboard, and eventually drive a stick-shift. A few years after we were married, my husband and I purchased our first home in Orange County, where we lived for the next 27 years. In 2001 we pulled up our OC roots and headed for Riverside County. We have lived in the Inland Empire for the last 20 years or so, first in the Corona area, and now in Calimesa, a once bucolic community where progress encroaches on open space almost daily. Calimesa is situated in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, about halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs.