Maybe I’ll find millions of dollars. Maybe the light will dawn in people’s lives and we’ll all get along with each other. Maybe the news coming from the television will be only good. And then, again…maybe not. This is the month of May and if you see a strange-looking but busy little insect this month, […]
Apr 23, 2026
The Wildflower
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This tiny wildflower has finally made its appearance in lawns in Arkansas. I used to call them Johnny Jump-Ups but my mother gently informed me the small, four-petaled bloom is a bluet. They carpeted the hill east of the house at Manos Meadows. I imagine they have been adding their special charm to springtime ever […]
Apr 15, 2026
A Stormy Night
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We had a stormy night and I slept right through it! My neighbors have tree limbs down in their yards and on the news, I noticed Oklahoma had some wind damage. But, we did get some much-needed rain. So, that’s springtime–the good and the bad. I hope other people were more alert than I was […]
Apr 13, 2026
Potpourri
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My thoughts, this morning, are a mixture of this and that, here and there, all over the place. The first thing, as I look out my window, is the weather. The wind is brisk, the sky is dark, and I’m wondering if we’ll get some much-needed rain. Remember that song, “April Showers?” Well, we could […]
Apr 12, 2026
Happy Birthday, Mama
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Today would have been my mother, Susie Latty Day’s, birthday and if she were here, I’d bake her favorite dessert–lemon pie. She loved lilacs. In fact, when she was sixteen, her dear Aunt Ettie, Tettle, she called her, gave her a huge bouquet of lilacs. Mom kept that bouquet even after the blossoms fell off. […]
Apr 3, 2026
Good Friday
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Sin held sway and horror gripped the earth on the Friday Jesus died. Darkness covered everything and everyone. Not the darkness of a spring thunderstorm but a thick, suffocating darkness. Candles must have been lit in homes as people groped about as if they were blind. The earth shook and perhaps groaned as the veil […]
