Happy New Year and a glad start to the year 2020. An old saying is that whatever you do today you’ll find yourself doing all year. If you were born in January, your lovely birthstone is a garnet. Beautiful color! Your flower is a carnation which smells as sweet as anything I’ve ever smelled. […]
Dec 31, 2019
Thoughts on the Old Year
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It’s a funny thing about tomorrow; although it’ll be the start of a brand-new year, 2020, were it not for turning the page on the calendar, would anyone notice a difference? The 1920s were known as the Roarin’ Twenties. What will the 2020s be known as? Looking back at several past New Years, I […]
Dec 30, 2019
As the Old Year Leaves
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Every morn is a fresh beginning; every day is the world made new. You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, here is a wonderful hope for you, a hope for me and a hope for you. — Author Unknown I’m not much for making New Year’s Resolutions. Once upon a time, it was […]
Dec 29, 2019
A Complaining Santa
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Mrs. Claus: Are you feeling better, Dear? How about a nice, hot cup of coffee? Santa (throwing back the quilts and rolling out of bed): Just what I need. The trip was hard this year. Mrs. Claus: Did the reindeer behave? Was the sleigh over-loaded? Did you face a head-wind? Santa: Yes, no, and […]
Dec 28, 2019
Where Are You?
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Where are you right now, this moment? I don’t mean in what town, state, or country are you, but where are your thoughts today, as of this moment in time? Remembering times past is well and good, in small doses, but we don’t live there any more. The past is just that–it’s gone. The […]
Dec 27, 2019
The Life of an Old Barn
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Arkansas and Oklahoma are blessed with many beautiful old barns. When I say old, I mean those that were built from the ground up, not pre-fab or metal. It is painful to see a barn that is 80 or 100 years old slowly crumbling with no one to care for it. When it’s gone, […]
