You’ve come a long way, baby, was a slogan from a tobacco company several years ago. That slogan could apply to how wash day has changed from the way it used to be. We probably don’t even have a “wash day” any more. Any time we have a load of clothes that need to be […]
Sep 20, 2025
Rain
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I was sitting at my trusty computer this morning, looking out of my window on the world and saw the rain coming. At first, it looked like fog arising over my neighbors’ rooftops, but then I saw the leaves moving on the crepe myrtle and sure enough, there were rain splatters appearing on the sidewalk. […]
Sep 19, 2025
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Is this really “Talk Like a Pirate” Day? Just in case it is, I re-print here the swash-buckling story of Pete and Pat. Pete, the Peg-Legged Pirate by Blanche Day Manos Pete the peg-legged pirate lived on the sea. He had a wooden leg beginning just below his knee. A bright and mouthy parrot […]
Sep 15, 2025
Through Other Eyes
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My sister-in-law and I found these old glasses, still in their case, when we were cleaning out my parents’ storage room. I know two things about them: they are old and I don’t know who they once belonged to. They did not belong to my parents and I’m guessing some previous owner of the house […]
Sep 13, 2025
Thoughts
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I think of my cousins on Mom’s side as “The Latty Cousins.” On Dad’s side, it’s “The Day Cousins.” My Latty grandparents had three children and those three had twenty-one children. These twenty-one were/are my first cousins. Of that group, now only four are left. One passed away this spring and one, just yesterday. Their […]
Sep 11, 2025
Do You Remember?
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I’m afraid that most of the time, I take life and freedom for granted. I go along, day by day, expecting everything to remain the same. But sometimes, things change suddenly and unexpectedly, as they did on this day twenty-four years ago for all of us. Each person in the hijacked airplanes, in the twin […]
