“Chums” is an old-fashioned word I don’t hear much any more. I’ve heard my mom talk about her school chums. Anyway, it means “friends” and Wednesday at 1:00, six of us chums were sitting around the dining table amid much laughter and talking. This is a neat group, serious about offering helpful suggestions but always […]
Sep 25, 2013
When You’ve Reached the Top
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Where do you go when you’ve reached the top? The picture illustrating this posting shows what my vine in the container garden did when it reached the top. It climbed up the porch support and bumped its leafy head on the porch ceiling. Trying to be helpful, I tied a nice, soft string from one […]
Sep 12, 2013
One Mountain Climbed, Now Onward…
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Such an odd daylight this morning, sort of a yellowish glow. The sun is not yet up but darkness took its leave before I could reach my computer. This is the time when the world seems hushed, not fully awake. Not a leaf stirs on the trees and only a couple of neighbors have passed […]
Sep 11, 2013
A Cache of Cozy Cats
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As I said on one of my posts, this writer was born suspicious. Actually, I must have been born with suspicion mixed with gullibility, stirred together with a tendency to believe the best of people. That seems a contradiction, doesn’t it? But a mystery writer needs to have an inquiring mind. There! I believe inquiring is a […]
Sep 3, 2013
Labor Day’s Strange Compulsion
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Each Labor Day, I mop my floors. Now, that sounds strange, doesn’t it, as if I mop my floors only once a year? Actually, I mop throughout the year. I don’t know how or when my habit of mopping on the first Monday in September began. It was many years ago. That’s my way of […]
Aug 12, 2013
A Cup of Coffee, a Good Book..
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My family frequents the library. So do I. Libraries have always been one of my favorite places because so many of my friends live there–books!! On another website, a writer and I chatted about libraries. She said she feels very comfortable in a library. So do I. There I can meet with Jim Qilleran (Lilian […]
