Monthly Archives: February 2021

Dear Reader: As I look out my side window the shadows are rapidly lengthening and darkness is slowly painting the lower landscape with unlit colors. It is 5:30 Sunday afternoon. We had lots of rain, in intervals throughout the night … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There is something so adorable about Linus and his security blue blanket that touches everyone… in their own insecure spots. He first appeared on television in 1952 carrying his blue blanket but never spoke until 1954. He is, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I remember hearing today’s title post phrase at a teacher conference long ago…I must have been pretty young because I was still taking notes then. 🙂 And I remember thinking… even while writing the phrase in my notebook..’Shouldn’t … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: I remember one particular visit to St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope in Trust, NC…soon after discovering the beautiful little chapel in the woods…Honey and I walked around to the back of the chapel where this merry little … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When I think back to my frightening diagnosis of an invasive, aggressive ductal form of breast cancer in 2008 I remember thinking “So if this it?” I was in my late fifties and suddenly it felt like the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Sometimes the seemingly simplistic things in life are the most elusive. Discovering who we really are under the skin is one of these…our likes, dislikes, interests, passions….all the things that make us unique…make us who we really are…yet … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I just named our low country alligator  “Alvin” for fun…but low country naturalists, actually, do use alligators to predict when spring will arrive in the low country of South Carolina. Obviously we don’t have many groundhogs, but we … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: With Christmas still a fairly recent memory…we all know the famous first lines by Luke in the Christmas Story…the birth of Jesus. …”And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar … Continue reading →