A sincere Happy New Year to all of you readers! May this be the best year yet. It’s a chilly, clear morning here in NWArkansas; no breeze, sunny sky, the promise of a good day. Happy birth month to all you January babies. The garnet, a lovely, deep red stone is your birthstone and your […]
Dec 30, 2025
A Trip to the Past
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Wandering through an antique shop, I found a copy of a Woman’s World magazine, December 1918. How times have changed in a hundred years! The magazine reflected the country’s need for being frugal and saving. There were tips for sewing and cooking and advertisements for home remedies. Particularly interesting were the ads for medicines […]
Dec 28, 2025
Weather
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Does weather affect your moods or do you go sailing through the seasons undaunted by snow, rain, or cold? Do you prefer balmy temperatures year round and escape to sunny places when possible? Or, does cold weather give you energy and pep and you love to see a bountiful snowfall? Wind blows the vines outside […]
Dec 27, 2025
Wicked Weather
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Arkansas weather, much like Oklahoma’s weather, is deceptive. It’s hard to believe that tomorrow the temperature will climb to seventy-two, then drop fifty degrees to a bone-chilling twenty-two Sunday night. Weather is changeable; you can’t count on it remaining one way or the other for very long. Do you leave Christmas decorations up past December […]
Dec 26, 2025
The Day After Christmas
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And now, mail resumes, banks re-open, people go back to work, and I’m grateful for another wonderful Christmas with my family. In many countries, this is Boxing Day, and I don’t mean it’s a time when we put on gloves and solve all our differences with combat. The day after Christmas is a day when […]
Dec 25, 2025
Christmas Day
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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6). Merry Christmas!
