Having a much-loved, much-anticipated grandbaby in the family brings back memories of my mother. Mother was a mover and shaker who kept us very busy.
“The girls need dance and piano …
Hello young mothers, wherever you are *
Wrinkles in paradise
Dan and I often take long camping trips, mostly in the West. The blue skies and mountains of New Mexico call to us, and we often land in Santa Fe …
A walk on the farm
Slowly emerging from a gray, rainy, sunny, cold, warm winter, our old farm is showing us how to “pick yourself up … dust yourself off … and start all over …
The Young and the Restless (with pardons to CBS)
I use a hair salon every six weeks. The salon is full of beautiful, up-to-the-minute young ladies with plumped lips, tattooed bodies, amazing eyelashes and eyebrows, and flawless make-up and …
Bad knees, Nhat Hanh and change
I’ve been thinking about change recently. It started with an email from Ann, a close cousin of mine. Her now-considered uninhabitable Florida home was hit by Hurricane Ian and picking …
Greetings from the Land of the Snowbirds
Dan and I have been dwelling in Snowbird Land for the last two weeks. We visited a similar land back when the boys were home. Dan’s great aunt and uncle, …
A close encounter with: BUGS!
Once, when my father was taking up football tickets at the field near our house, an enormous beetle with evil-looking pinchers flew down the chimney. Mother grabbed a glass jar …
Guns: The good, the bad and the ugly
Like most Southerners growing up, my father taught my sister and me how to shoot a rifle. Actually, he tried to teach us how to shoot.
When visiting my grandmother’s farm, …