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 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 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 […]
Nov 5, 2014
A Feeling of Home
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This morning, as I gaze out my window on the world, I see the maple in front, the home of squirrels and a few birds, is becoming beautiful. I didn’t know whether the leaves would be pretty or not this year, but they are lovely. I don’t imagine the creatures who call that tree home […]
Nov 2, 2014
Company Comin’
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This morning, maybe because Matt and Dawn were expecting company yesterday, I thought of how my dad and mom welcomed company a long time ago when I was a child. Company was special. (It still is, by the way.) We looked forward to visitors (well, Mom and Dad did. I was so shy that sometimes I would […]
