This morning is bright and sunny but there’s a chance for severe weather later this weekend. A tornado tore through St. Louis yesterday, wreaking havoc and destruction. So, I took a look back twelve whole years to a past summer day and the good things that were in it. Yesterday was one of those whirlwind […]
May 16, 2025
Times Like These
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In uncertain times, we need an anchor, something unchangeable that we can cling to. It helps to have reminders that people have gone through hard times before now, and survived. My granddaughter and I are interested in genealogy. She has traced one line of our ancestry back to the 1400s. Now, that’s a long time […]
May 15, 2025
Remembering Summer
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Those summer memories of childhood! I remember running barefoot through tickly grass, walking through dusty places and feeling warm dust puff up between my toes, dancing quickly over rocks that were too hot for lingering. Summer was hot, but I didn’t mind. It was the way summer was supposed to be. Of course, if we had […]
May 14, 2025
I Learned It In a Cozy Mystery
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Cozy mysteries are fun to read and fun to write. If they were not, who would read or write them? As well as being fun, they are instructive. They’ve taught me several life lessons. Storms come in every life. There is no problem than cannot be solved. Perseverance wins the day. Home’s hearth fires burn […]
May 13, 2025
‘Twas a Fine and Misty Morning
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This isn’t St. Patrick’s Day, but, oh well…the world is pretty and green this morning, so here’s a stretch to the imagination. A Surprise Meeting One soft and misty morning, on a day so fine and rare, My heart felt light as birdsong, without one single care, As I strode through the heather into a […]
