This is a beautiful, clear morning. Not a cloud and there’s no wind, but boy! It is cold! The temperature is hovering around thirteen degrees, so the beauty of this quiet morning is deceptive. Amazing, what I can see with most of the leaves gone. Across from me, above my far neighbor’s house, I see […]
Dec 9, 2025
Winter Back Yard
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Backyard bushes, green and flowering in warm weather, become gray, drab sprigs in the winter. The birds don’t mind. When moonlight silvers the yard, they crowd deep into the thick twigs, twittering and chirping, discussing the day’s happenings, content to be hidden by darkness and their stubbly cover. A few wild, forest creatures slip into […]
Dec 7, 2025
Pearl Harbor
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“A day that will live in infamy,” President Roosevelt said. And, indeed, it has and will. A sneak attack by Japanese aircraft against the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor triggered the United States’ entrance into World War II, December 7, 1941. As I watch old film clips and read first-hand accounts, I can imagine […]
Dec 5, 2025
A Fox Tale
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Buz the Fox by Blanche Manos You see, it might have happened this way: once upon a time, about two thousand years ago, some foxes dwelt in the hill country and plains around Bethlehem. I hate to tell you this, but it was their custom to follow, at a discreet distance, the flocks of sheep […]
Dec 3, 2025
Common Sense
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I often long for the common sense wisdom of my dad. His children always knew his view of things and, we knew he was right. Surprising, what a sense of security that gave. I wonder what he’d say about the many, many changes I see in life today. I think, maybe he would have nothing […]
