Monthly Archives: November 2021

 In just six short days we will once again be celebrating Thanksgiving. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating Thanksgiving 2020.  In less than seven weeks it will be 2022. Where has the time gone? In contemplating what I … Continue reading →

To Grandmother’s house we go!  When I was a l child, we did take the “Over the River and Through the Woods” trip to get to my grandmother’s house.  No, it wasn’t in a horse drawn sleigh.  It was a … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about my father, a WWII veteran. There are other veterans among my relatives, but some of them fought on “the other side.”  One of my grandfather’s brothers-in-law served in the Romanian Army which joined with the … Continue reading →

I am wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, cousin, friend, confidant, neighbor and acquaintance.  I have been daughter, daughter-in-law, granddaughter and niece. I was student, teacher, subordinate, supervisor, winner, loser.  I was someone’s pride and joy, and someone’s challenge. I was playmate, … Continue reading →

One of the aspects of the fast-paced world we now live in that I find distressing (and there are many) is how we travel and take vacations. You blog readers who are my age and older remember the days when … Continue reading →

“How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God!  Therefore, the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.”  Psalm 36:7 If you were blessed with children, you will remember how they trusted in you.  Did they worry … Continue reading →

If you ever watched a toddler learning to walk, you might be amused.  They are kind of hunched over a bit, looking for a place to grab on to, and almost waddling before the strength in their legs and backs improve. … Continue reading →

We all probably dreamed of accomplishing something really big in our lives at one time or another.  Maybe we thought we would be a movie star, a sports hero, a rock star, a top selling author or a CEO of … Continue reading →

Whose Am I?  These are two pivotal questions that Ellie, a character in one of Charles Martin’s Murph Shepherd novels, asks of Murph.  Ellie, a lonely, angry, lost teenager, seeks Shepherd to answer these important questions.  Shepherd is a “people … Continue reading →

My father was a World War II veteran serving in the U. S. Navy from 1943-1946. He didn’t talk much about those years, but he and my mother left a correspondence they exchanged during the war years which I transcribed … Continue reading →