Author Archives: Becky Dingle

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 →

Dear Reader: If you were a parent in the late eighties or early nineties of middle school or high school-age teenagers, and or/ a teacher like me with children around that age (double whammy)… you might be cringing just hearing … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I think summer thunderstorms are my one of favorite things. I have been thinking about the lyrics to Julie Andrews “Favorite Things” from the Sound of Music… she would be hard-pressed to rhyme a thunder storm with anything else … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: We unfortunate “children of the sentence diagram/language requirement decades” still bear scars from the terrifying call to go to the blackboard to diagram a sentence. I remember my sixth grade teacher would tap her ruler against the black board, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: A couple of weeks ago Honey sent me a 2021 New Year’s Calendar…as a donation and tribute to a local artist she knows. I was so appreciative of this gift… since my goal this year is to get … Continue reading →