March

March birthday people, your flower is the lovely daffodil, one of the first flowers to pop up after winter, reminding us of sunnier, warmer days ahead. Aquamarine and bloodstone are your two birth stones. So, you are beautifully attired for your special month. A neat fact: The origin of birth stones takes back to the […]

March

Suppose That It Happened…

Writing a mystery is doing a lot of just supposin’. Come with me a moment into the mysterious realms of the fourth Ned McNeil mystery. Just suppose that it was part of Ned’s job to take a picture of an old farmhouse for her boss, Daisy. But, suppose that when Ned goes inside the dark […]

Penelope Pennybroke

This is a strange tale of someone we’ll call Penelope Pennybroke. You may believe it or not, as you choose. Penelope, quiet, gray-haired woman of a certain number of years, was on her daily walk, minding her own business, keeping an eye out. She always did this–kept an eye out. One time she found a […]

Hope

  Yesterday is a part of forever, Bound up in a sheaf, which God holds tight— With glad days and sad days and bad days, which never Shall visit us more with their bloom and their blight, Their fullness of sunshine and sorrowful night  Isn’t it strange how long a night can grow Ere morning […]

Dinosaurs and Home Ec

They sit on my bookshelf, alone and neglected. Once they were highly valued, a world of information. They are my beautiful set of World Book Encyclopedias, and, they are as out-dated as the dinosaurs. The fault lies with the Internet. Why go to the trouble of opening a book, shuffling through alphabetically, and coming upon […]