Monthly Archives: May, 2019
What Do You Think?
After all these years, I find myself repeatedly hearing my dad’s voice. He always, and I do mean always, looked for the best in people. Maybe it is his gentle persuasion that taught me to look for the best also. Now, he was not naïve, and neither am I. There are evil people of whom …
A Memorial Day Memoryo
After over 500+ posts, I find little to post so I dug up one from 2012 about a family member that fought for our country in the Revolutionary War. It is family only by marriage, yet, I’ll claim him! I found him on Ancestry . com several years ago. My mother’s brothers all served twenty …
“Back when I was a child about a hundred years ago. . .”
My students probably heard me say that at least a hundred times or more over the four years they sat in my English classes. I was the only teacher in the high school that allowed birthday celebrations in my class so of course, they made sure to celebrate my birthday royally. One year a student …
Doodling Around the Edges
Here’s a little secret: if you call me and we talk for more than five or ten minutes, I am doodling on the nearest slip of paper I can find. Usually I decorate the corners of a page, then work along the bottom and if the conversation gets extended, I decorate the entire circumference of …
The Shepherd's Presence 