Author Archives: Becky Dingle

  Dear Reader: Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself and others around you when it comes to dialect…especially in the south. How we speak and how we spell are closely tied together. I remember helping my Uncle Herschel … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Jakie’s favorite lollipop is a tootsie roll pop. When he gets on the phone with me…it is the first thing he asks if he knows I am coming over soon…”Are you bringing me a tootsie roll pop Boo … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: We have talked many times about simplifying our lives through downsizing the space in it….rooms, houses, yards and, then, mainly the “stuff” that resides within it all. There is, however, another type of downsizing and that is simplifying … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Thursday night I was surfing channels to no avail. I had about given up hope of finding anything worth watching…when I flipped on PBS and the English version of the movie Pollyanna was just about to start on … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Why do so many people want to pick on one of my all-time favorite words….very? I remember my senior high school English teacher handing me back the first draft of my first attempt at a term paper….with lines drawn … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Wow! The past two days have played out so beautifully I keep wondering how everything seems to be falling into place lately. It all has to do with my car. Yes…the good old Green Vue. It is still … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There are so many things that I like about Brene Brown and her books on imperfection. She is gifted at simplifying the reasons why imperfection is always more preferable than a life consumed in futility and frustration… a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Aren’t we guilty of wanting to be the first one out of the gate some days, accompanied by our big to-do list…only to discover that God’s list doesn’t always resemble ours? His priorities take precedence over our narrower … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I could hardly contain my excitement Saturday when I strolled through the garden early in the morning and saw my beloved “Black Beauty” had returned. This day lily is my favorite of all! The burgundy is so dark…that … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Speaking for all human beings… don’t we wish that an operating manual came attached to newborns? …Instructions on how (not) to just survive the first year…but our whole lives? Instructions like “Turn here, take a right, avoid congestion … Continue reading →