Chapter 1 I awoke sitting straight up in bed, my heart doing double time. Was it rain pounding against my bedroom windows or the wind roaring around the house that had awakened me? Jethro, his feline apprehension alerted by my sudden movement, jumped from my bed and darted from the room. Straining to hear, I […]
Aug 3, 2023
Who Do I Think You Are?
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I’ll bet when you were in kindergarten, you were a real stinker–the kind that caused your teacher to pull her hair and your classmates to giggle. You know why? Because some of those traits still linger, hanging about your personality like so many threads dangling from a well-worn jacket. These were my thoughts this morning […]
Aug 2, 2023
A Merry Heart
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“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine” (Proverbs 17:22). When I was young, I had the idea that I’d grow to be a plump, merry old lady, liked by all and liking everyone. But, with advancing years, I find the “plump” part is easy but as for being merry? Sometimes I have to work […]
Aug 1, 2023
Augustus and His Namesake
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Good morning all you August people (and everyone else). If you have an August birthday, you were born in an interesting month–a month with a history. To start with, it was once called Sextilis and was the sixth month. Then, along came powerful Augustus Caesar. It was renamed August in the year 8 B.C. The […]
Jul 30, 2023
The Cornfield in the Moonlight
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The Cornfield in the Moonlight by Blanche Manos The cornfield in the moonlight, when the shadows dance and sway Is not the same at midnight as it is throughout the day. The field is hushed at midnight; the world has gone to sleep, But the cornstalks nod and rustle at the mysteries they keep. Who […]
