Learning Time

School has started in my neck of the woods–children and teachers returning to fresh adventures, seeing old friends and making new ones. Hopefully, this will be a fun-filled, safe year for all. I wondered, as I looked out at bird baths this morning, if birds need to learn bird-things from their parents, or if it […]

Hope and the Super Bowl

  I am not a sports fan, but sports is the life breath for many people. However, I decided, since most of my family would be glued to the television screen watching the Super Bowl that year, I’d at least give the game a peek. Then, of course, I wanted to know who won, so […]

Nipped in the Bud

Below, I’m giving the start of a story I had begun to write. It was based on a true story that happened in 1902, a terrible miscarriage of justice. But, as I typed, I realized I really don’t want to write this story because I knew the facts behind it. I have the victim’s last […]

Cloud Animals

Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, Ph.D. included my poem about clouds in his Give Your Child a Head Start in Reading, available on Amazon. Fluffy, friendly dragons float across the sky   Shapes of whales and dinosaurs that swim and soar and fly. I like to watch the changing clouds, their shapes are fun to see, And as […]

It Seems That I Know You

Is the past really the past or does it reappear now and then? I saw one of my old college professors the other day, even though he has been dead a good number of years. Now, before you think I’ve gone completely round the bend, let me explain. Actually, I didn’t see him but I […]

Jethro’s Journal

Darcy and Flora don’t know this about me: even though I’m a cat, I don’t think of myself as such. I am a member of the Campbell/Tucker family and watching over them is my life’s objective. There’re a couple more things they haven’t yet surmised: I like cheese and I keep a hidden journal. The […]