I’ve heard women say, “I don’t want to become my mother as I grow older.” How sad. If someone tells me I’m like my mom, I consider it a huge compliment. My mother and I were best friends. I think you’d have liked her. If you never had that privilege, you can get just a […]

A Tattered Book
Yesterday, I happened upon a very old diary! It was a 5-year diary and, oh joy! it began in 1953! Can you believe it? I’ve always preferred reading diaries or journals of people who lived through old times because to me those are the truest accounts. This was evidently the journal of a young farm […]

Endings and Beginnings
A new year is waiting to make its appearance Sunday and the old year is getting ready to be put away and assigned to memory. We all hope for a better year in every aspect of life. We face 2023 with a great deal of resolutions, wishes, and perhaps a few old tales just to […]
When You Don’t Know What To Do
When you don’t know what to do about any situation, do what you do know. In other words, stay busy! This morning, snow is stuck on houses and cars, just a little, not much. Not enough to be pretty. The trees are amber and black, grass is rather dreary. In other words, it’s a blah […]

Finding Lost Things
My husband and I bought a 1967 Mustang brand-new, straight off the showroom floor. It was beautiful, small, shiny brown with a leather-look brown interior and it was a V-8. That’s something rare, nowadays. Today’s cars are mostly 4-cylinder with some sort of eco-booster. Anyway, our Mustang was a neat car. But, we sold it […]

Dream Your Troubles Away
We all have a dream–something that puts a spring in our steps and a gleam in our eyes. Dreams are those wonderful things as filmy as a spider’s web, as substantial as moonbeams, somewhere ahead of us, calling to us to follow, to pursue, to hope, to reach. We can spin dreams of the […]
