Monthly Archives: April 2019

Dear Reader: Sometimes when I think about the conscious or unconscious influence of being a role model for loved ones coming after me and those who surround me in my daily life…it forces me to never forget just what an … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday I finished the blog post by observing that sometimes we need to stop and look up (the balloons caught in the tree)…you never know what you might see and looking up helps us climb over obstacles. Now … Continue reading →

*(Art work Title: “When No One is Looking on the Farm”– Artist- Lucia Masciullo) Dear Reader: *I had to laugh at the artist Masciullo’s interpretation of something that might happen when no one is looking…like ‘When pigs fly on a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Today I look at all the career choices young men and women have that were non-existent in the seventies when I graduated from college…especially for women. The career slots were still basically medicine (as a nurse only or … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I thought I had finished the Mitford Series with number 13 when I discovered, last week to my surprise, that a “last” novel (to date – number 14) had been added to the series. I am almost finished…but … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It happened…yesterday at 3:31 p.m. – the number I had been imagining as I (peripherally) glanced at the followers count of 999 while writing three more daily posts…that elusive four-digit number 1000 and then suddenly… there it was! Oh … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I remember Grandmother Wilson welcoming visitors to the farm house in the spring with these very words “You are as welcome as the flowers in May”…(I always thought it was such a sweet sentiment.) Today Grandmother would have … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As I walked through my garden after the luscious rains had departed late Tuesday afternoon there was my little hydrangea that has hung in there for about three seasons now…not doing much…but here it was with beautiful green … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday was such a “magical” day in so many ways…the results of my white cell blood count had risen…still low but no longer “critically low.” Staying off Ibrance (“The New Normal”) cancer medicine for three weeks did the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I don’t know if any of you saw the segment on CBS Sunday Morning News about Biomimicry…the study of finding solutions to present-day problems from nature…thus creating new innovations… I was fascinated! In the title photo…the study of … Continue reading →