Author Archives: Becky Dingle

Dear Reader: I remember attending a local southern authors’ convention held in Asheville one year. After listening to several question and answer sessions with recognizable authors…one, less-known, writer responded with a memorable answer to this question ….“Do you always have … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t you love this “take” on the favorite old nursery rhyme about the most famous egg around? I adore different creative perspectives on status quo theories and thoughts…even nursery rhymes. Too cute! So instead of Humpty Dumpty “cracking” … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Isn’t there so much truth in the title statement? Nobody likes asking a perpetual whiner how they are doing and get a 20 minute tirade of all their ailments, along with personality disagreements involving their family, doctors,  or … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Almost daily now new terms, words,  slang expressions, and acronyms are appearing in the news, magazines, talk shows and newspapers…in connection with living along side a pandemic, Covid19, and political turmoil… the latter actually wearing everyone down faster than … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The best thing about having a garden is being taught so many life lessons that we can carry into our daily lives. This photo was taken around 7:00 a. m. Friday morning….the afternoon showers that were predicted came … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I followed John O’Donohue’s last stanza directions on how to spend my birthday yesterday…I did it in solitude. On this echoing-day of your birth, May you open the gift of solitude In order to receive your soul; Enter … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The most beautiful moon flower blossom to date…one that secretly bloomed during the night, bloomed in an azalea bush instead of on the trellis…thus putting it in the path of the morning light that shone through the exquisite … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Wouldn’t life be extremely dull if we knew everything that was going to happen ahead of time? If we lived in a world with no surprises? The best thing is… surprises don’t have to be big…in fact, in … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: These days it is very easy to be in love with life in nature…every minute of it. Mums, pumpkins, butterflies, gords, chilly nights and cool mornings. Truly…what is there not to love about the favorite season world-wide…Autumn? And … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Anne sent me one of Quinn Caldwell’s recent devotionals….she knows how much I enjoy his takes on life with all its surrounding circumstances and complications. In this devotional he was concentrating on the musical “Hamilton” and the mystery … Continue reading →