Monthly Archives: June 2022

Dear Reader: Do you think we had fun yesterday? Never a dull moment! It was a stormy ( weather-wise) day so I was introduced to a whole new world out there. Video Games… where I found myself drawn into a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Every few years I come back across the book Simple Abundance by Sarah Breathnach, written in 1995, and I marvel at the new connections and realizations we share… even after all the years of separation in our writings … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: This year for Rutledge’s birthday I thought I would give him a compass that came down from his great-grandfather, my father to my mother, when they married two months after Dad being honorably discharged at the end of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink, That is the finest of suppers, I think; When I’m grown up and can have what I please I think I shall always insist upon these. – Christopher Morley Saturday was my … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Isn’t life exciting when we learn something new on an ordinary day? And this ” new” just makes your day! This happened to me yesterday. I was taking a picture of a very popular Winnie the Pooh nursery … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Looking backwards at the trail behind… it hit me how on target and true this title saying is. The first time it happened I was a junior in high school and wanted so badly to try out for … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I am one happy camper! My neighbor next door has started securing and replacing every part of the ancient fence that separates the empty lot that his family owns… all the way to the back of my property … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I am at the stage in life now that I understand completely the quote: ” Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” Soren Kirrkagaard We all are our past experiences, good and bad, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I grew up in the Haymount area of Fayetteville, NC -not the old historic Victorian mansions side but on the other side where ” Leave it to Beaver” middle class homes pervaded the landscape… ours being the wooden … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As children of school age… didn’t we all live for summer? It was like Christmas vacation in eternal extension… except no gifts were necessary… no school and loss of rigid routines was gift enough! I started thinking of … Continue reading →