The trouble with getting older is that, with the years, a person gains some wisdom (if we didn’t, those years would be wasted, wouldn’t they?) but nobody will ask older people to share that wisdom! Frustrating! I wish I had the gift of making a point through humorous speech, as did Will Rogers. He couched […]
Oct 11, 2022
An Open Book?
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Sometimes, I think of life as a story that’s being told. Parts of it might be exciting, parts of it, sad. Parts of fun and parts are painful. Life is not all one thing. Mysteries, tragedies, humor, romance, adventure, and just day-to-day living are all a part of this life story. I don’t think it’s […]
Oct 10, 2022
Sog and the Fly
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It Happened One Summer by Blanche Day Manos In my neck of the woods, everything gets ornery in the summertime. Critters, humans, even bugs are easy riled. There’s nothing like the heat of a white-orange sun blazing down from a copper-colored sky to make varmints out of the most lowly of pesky, everyday things, particularly […]
Oct 6, 2022
A Clue in the Wallpaper?
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Sleep was hard to come by that night. My dreams were riddled with ghosts and scraps of paper which kept floating just beyond my grasp. When a tumble-down house fell in on me, I awoke, my heart pounding. I’d had enough. Stumbling downstairs, I aimed my feet toward the kitchen. The nightmares were one […]
Oct 4, 2022
Above the Clouds
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Tuesday Morning Thoughts People in Florida and in other places where Hurricane Ian left its mark have had way too much rain and flooding and heartache. Probably, to many, it looks as if they’ll never rise above the calamity. They are brave in facing what needs to be done and doing it. Many people are […]
