Remember I told you I’m taking a computer course? Yesterday, amazingly, I learned to do two things on my computer that are brand new to me. I realize that many of you knew how to put up sticky notes on your desk top and making mailing labels is old hat for you but not for […]
Feb 6, 2015
Philosophical Friday
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Is there a particular time of day when errant thoughts wander into your head and you start remembering and wondering and realizing there are lots and lots of things in this old world that you’ve only glimpsed? Or perhaps that you’ve not glimpsed at all but puzzled over? When the sun slips toward the western horizon […]
Jan 26, 2015
Blizzards and Bugs
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The sun warms the tattered brown leaves of the maple outside my window, turning them to gold. This day is starting out to be beautiful; a little nippy, but all in all, a nice day. A far cry from the people in the northeast who are expecting a blizzard today and tomorrow, worse than any […]
Jan 8, 2015
Why Worry?
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Every day as I listen to the news, I find a new reason to worry. I think it’s time to re-print a poem by an anonymous author. Worry? Why worry? What can worry do? It never keeps a trouble from overtaking you. It gives you indigestion and sleepless hours at night and fills with gloom […]
Jan 6, 2015
I Declare; This Isn’t Just Fiddle Faddle
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Being brought up in Oklahoma, I’ve heard most of these Southern sayin’s all my life. I don’t think they’re odd. I thought everybody talked this way. They make perfect sense to me; don’t they to you? One thing I’ve learned through life is not to take things for granted–success in any field, particularly in writing. […]
Dec 31, 2014
Chilblains
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Well, I didn’t exactly get chilblains from staying outside so long yesterday but I did get a pretty good case of the shivers! And these were shivers caused by the cold, not by scary stories! It all came about like this: 1. I’m pretty tired of staying inside and looking out at the blah, dreary, […]
