Monthly Archives: November 2022

Dear Reader: I have listened to many teachers tell the ” Thanksgiving Story” with the Native-American leader, Samoset, (who befriended the Puritans) greeting and welcoming the pilgrims but never heard his first few and true words…which were: One of the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: What a wonderful way to spend Election Day! I voted early so I could just enjoy playing with the grandchildren-Mollie was gone about an hour and half… encouraging voter turnout today without being overwhelming … due to record-breaking … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Have you noticed how popular Ben Franklin’s quote about our republic has become …pre-election? The story, behind it, goes that Old Ben was leaving the Constitutional Convention after the final vote had been taken. A woman came scurrying … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It was a sweltering summer afternoon in 1842 in Indiana. Henry Shoemaker was laboring as a hired hand on a family farm. Suddenly he remembered it was Election Day and he had personally promised his vote to one … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: A couple of weeks ago… I came across an article that I found, initially, rather unsettling. The article was on how hope, can not only stagnate our life journey … but prevent us from taking the necessary detours … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There are some stories that are so memorable that even two decades after first hearing it… it is as fresh in our memories as the day we first heard it. It was fall of 2005. I was working … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I don’t think I am alone in a certain feeling I have felt in intervals throughout my life. Have you ever wished you could duplicate yourself so you could be at more than one place at the same … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Only root tendrils anchor this Sitka Spruce ( largest spruce)… an historical treasure to ground. The majority of the root is exposed and sprawling over the existing void. Still it manages to not only live but thrive …though … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I suppose , in the hierarchy of global decision-making skills, one small decision I made this autumn, falls short of being earth-shattering to the world… but, in my world, it was a decision that made me pause yesterday … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Isn’t it hard to believe that a whole new month is upon us? Since I love Autumn… I want to freeze/frame this month. October left yesterday taking Jack o’lanterns with it… but leaving pumpkins; witches and ghosts flew … Continue reading →