Author Archives: Becky Dingle

(Title Painting: Anne Peterson) Dear Reader: I picked up Simple Abundance (one of my all-time favorite books to re-read occasionally) ..and turned to its ideas for any and every new year promise of improvement. God Wink… the one for today…really … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: “What a day, what a day, what a day”…yesterday was. Remember I mentioned how happy I was Thursday because the sun had finally come out…and it just made me plain happy? The older I get the more I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Two God Winks appeared yesterday. First…In one of my “Kindness” sites (that pop up weekly with stories of random acts of kindness)…the message, this week, talked about how important it is for humans to take time to be … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: After re-living the adventures of the Spring Break Bahamas cruise yesterday…and feeling so much lightness and laughter…I decided I wanted to keep the feeling going. What got me thinking along the lines of thanking my Ya friends, from … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday I spent about an hour on the phone with Brookie…reminiscing about a spring break trip we took our senior year at college…our last “hurrah.” We were both laughing so hard we could hardly hear the other speak. … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t most of us remember, as a child, asking how much longer a trip would take, that extremely annoying question to parents on long trips…in the form of “Are we there yet?” or “How much longer do we … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Does anyone else out there feel like I have been feeling since last March and most of last year…like I am holding my breath with so many scary unknowns still ‘circling the wagons?’ Watching the pandemic go from … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday was a  chilly Saturday morning following a dark, turbulent week in our country’s history…I think many of us feel like the Calgon beauty bath commercial… just” Take me away.”  In fact…I found myself yesterday morning pulling up … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When I hear so many of the old Beatles songs, including John Lennon’s beautiful “Give Peace a Chance” I remember a wonderful reunion with my high school friends. I had been away at college for a couple of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Haven’t most of us experienced an alien feeling or thought… upon losing a loved one… that the world should stop turning on its axis at that precise moment in time… or that life, as we once knew it, … Continue reading →