Thank you to all the veterans out there! And thank you to my two brothers Tracy and Richard, for their years of service in the Navy. Posthumously, to my brother Thurman and nephew Clint. I appreciate you! The uninvited guest I mentioned yesterday has arrived. She slipped in quietly last night and is beginning to […]
Nov 10, 2014
An Unwanted Guest
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She’s coming. Better get ready. Will she stay long? Boy! I hope not! How do I get ready for an unwanted guest? Batten down the hatches! Yesterday was a family affair in cleaning the children’s pool, winterizing it as best we could. Now it looks forlorn and unsettled, like it’s waiting for something. And, it […]
Nov 9, 2014
Freedom
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” President Reagan challenged the Soviet Union leader in 1987. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy had stated, “Ich bin ein Berliner,” voicing the support of the United State for democratic West Germany two years after the wall was erected. The wall marked the separation of West Berlin from East Berlin […]
Nov 8, 2014
A Wacky Worrier
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I have a tendency to worry. I know that worry is interest paid on borrowed trouble. I know that worry is useless and 95% of the things a person worries about never happens. I know that worry is a waste of time. Nevertheless, I worry. Maybe it’s because I want people to behave in an […]
Nov 7, 2014
Change and the Seasons
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Isn’t it funny how things change–quickly? One day it is summer, balmy, warm, lazy; the next day, snow covers the landscape and I go shivering around the house in a sweater. Snow hasn’t arrived her in NW Arkansas yet but it certainly has in Minnesota. My brother Tracy sent this picture of Little Sand Lake […]
Nov 6, 2014
Friends
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“Friendship is a Golden Chain, The links are friends so dear,” said Helen Steiner Rice in her poem, A Golden Chain. Yesterday’s luncheon at Fran’s was a warm example of friendship. Twenty ladies gathered in Fran’s house which she and Donna had decorated for the Christmas season. That in itself was enough to brighten the […]
