Monthly Archives: March 2015

  Dear Reader: This is my “listening” spot….when I eat breakfast outside and listen to the birds and the world waking up….when I eat lunch or dinner out here and watch the sun set, while listening to the last coo’s … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: I used many of Paul Harvey’s books (The Rest of the Story) to teach history to my students…(because his stories were so fascinating)….He would tell this amazing narrative and then wait for the conclusion to name the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Since it was pretty cool yesterday morning…(like Lucy the cat) I found myself basking in the beautiful sunshine…actually sitting on the deck in “Lucy’s lounge chair” as she looked at me disdainfully for taking her “throne.” (Hey, I … Continue reading →

  The South The place where…Tea is sweet… accents are sweeter Summer starts in April Macaroni and Cheese is a vegetable Ya’ll is the only proper noun Chicken is fried and biscuits come with gravy Everyone is Darling’ and Someone’s … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: After receiving that wonderful gift from Jo and Colby Wednesday about the 100th anniversary of Webster dictionary… with the reproduction of a page from Noah Webster’s very first dictionary…I decided to look up the latest words to … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: Within a two foot radius in my garden…there are three different shades of green growing stronger every day…stemming from dark to light to yellow-green…all strikingly beautiful. I remember a couple of years ago when I toured Linwood’s … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I find that in this stage of life my imagination has been re-born. It isn’t that it ever truly disappeared…I have always loved creativity…it is just that it had to take a back seat to the reality of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Sometimes… how I arrive at the “thought for the day’ in my daily blogs… is a combination of seemingly unrelated incidences that finally jolt my memories and produce an idea for the blog. In today’s blog…several reflections merged. … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: I just recently discovered a quite interesting story about the Beatles and one of the last songs written by them in the album Abbey Lane called “The End.” The quote in the title of this blog is … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Spring is officially here and somehow I always feel that if it is “official”…(the real deal…the equinox…) then the weather has to start behaving itself and stop its unpredictability and see-saw winter-spring games. Perhaps Charles Dickens (Great Expectations) said … Continue reading →