My left hand is a different color than my right hand. They were both the same shade until I ran into the door facing a couple of nights ago. You see, it was like this: I dozed off on the sofa, woke up and staggered back in the general direction of the bedroom. Aiming for the hall, my […]
May 2, 2016
That Busy Little May Bee
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Yesterday, the first day of May, came in just as it should with lots of sun, cool temperatures and a feeling of optimism, of looking forward to what the spring will bring. Long ago, children wound brightly colored ribbons around a Maypole on the first day of May. My mother told me that she and […]
Mar 22, 2016
Who Are You and Why?
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Wind has swept the sky clean of clouds this morning, reminding me of the nursery rhyme, The Old Woman in a Basket. Without re-printing the whole thing, let me say, the old woman was tossed up in a basket seventeen times as high as the moon. She carried a broom to sweep the cobwebs down from the […]
Feb 29, 2016
Grasping That Extra Day
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Every fourth year, little February gets a bit longer, twenty-four hours to be exact. What will you do with this extra day? I decided I’d look back at some of my past writings that, for one reason or the other, never left home. Making a book of these unpublished stories might be good because there’s a lot […]
Jul 12, 2013
Footprints
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My grandchildren like to make footprints. When they get out of the pool, they will sometimes purposely walk around on the deck, leaving those wet little shapes of their feet. We’ve all read (or written) mystery stories that involve searching for footprints as clues to who has been where. I’ve sometimes wondered if the places […]
Jun 7, 2013
Creature from the Black Lagoon
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The sun is throwing long tree shadows across my neighbor’s house and lawn. An early morning jogger went past my window and the yellow and white cat is still out exploring. I overslept. The reason? I stayed up really late last night watching a 1954 black and white movie, “The Creature from the Black Lagoon.” […]
