Last night, we got a wonderful, refreshing rain. Everyone except Nemo appreciates it. I hear a bird out front singing away and in back, a little wren voices his approval. Grass has greened overnight and my poor flowers, what the squirrels didn’t eat, are grateful. I can tell. This Friday is the last one in […]
And, On That Note
Yesterday, I talked about words, their power, and the way we use them. On that note, I’d like to give my view of how these words many times are used to divide and infiltrate, to promote dissention and hatred. Books, movies, news stories that concentrate on past wrongs, evils, shameful laws are supposed to be […]
What Did You Just Say?
Words! We speak them, write them, sing them. Words have terrific impact. Knowing that, why do some use ugly, nasty, dirty words? It’s sad to hear that words once thought of as gutter language and for which I’d have had my mouth washed out, are now common place utterances and nobody blinks an eye. On […]

A Moonlight Surprise
Slipping from tree to bush, I walked as softly as my boots allowed. It’s funny how weird things looked at night, how lonely and hushed, as if the familiar landscape were an alien planet with no life on it except mine. I stopped in the shadow of the farmhouse and listened; no sound of pickax […]
Waiting for the Other Shoe
I got up far too early this morning. Maybe I’m like my dad in that respect. He was a true believer in early to bed, early to rise. In fact, he went to bed with the chickens and thought everyone else should too. His stubborn children, as well as his wife, didn’t agree. Dad had […]

