Monthly Archives: July 2023

Dear Reader: Waking up yesterday morning to the sound of rain … just starting to hit the ground, was music to my ears! I dashed out and made sure my new milkweed plant ( ” manna from Heaven” for monarch … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As I went in the bathroom first thing Sunday morning at Brooke’s, to wash up…I recognized ( for the first time) the Faith Angel I gave Brooke many years ago… an artistic creation by Kelly Rae Roberts. I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t you love those first few moments of awakening consciousness daily… when you recollect the day of the week, the agenda for day… and then suddenly remember you are going to lifetime best friend’s house for a weekend … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday I was off to Brookie’s in Walterboro to spend another of our famous movie marathon weekends. I got back Thursday from Mt Pleasant after a harrowing trip to Ben’s neurologist in one of the worst thunderstorms I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Have you ever thought about this… that once we stop rushing through life, we finally get it… and that is …amazingly… how much more life we now have time for? That is probably the greatest magic of all… … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I was about eight or nine when I first saw this horror show ( probably first one I snuck into with Ben without mother knowing) I paid the price for the parent deception… I had nightmares for a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I have always taken delight in my Libra approach to life… keeping a balance within myself and others. Overall it has worked well… but every now and then life just seems to get out of sync… and we … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t we all get caught up annually with memories and personal feelings of what July 4 means to us … so much so that we forget there are interesting links and correlations between two historical dates ( July … Continue reading →

Friends and visitors do a double take when they come to the house… first staring at the red geraniums .. then blinking and asking ” That isn’t a poinsettia, is it? ” They gasp in disbelief! ( I do too … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of my all-time favorites. Recently it occurred to me it would make a beautiful epitaph. ( He/ She -name-scattered joy!) I can think of no higher eulogy or adoration. What … Continue reading →