Author Archives: Becky Dingle

      Dear Reader: Can’t just one little act of kindness turn your day upside down? It might just be a smile, a small courtesy, or a compliment…it doesn’t really matter…. the act itself isn’t as important as how … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: How many times have we heard that it is not the amount of curve balls we receive during our lives that define us as individuals but it is our response to the curve balls… While following this train … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday…Ashley, Honey’s daughter, stopped by my house (on her way home from the mountains) bearing corn and tomatoes… along with this beautifully crafted clay plaque from Honey!!! Now that is “talking turkey to me“….”Honest Injun”I loved it all! … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I have always found William Blake’s poetry hauntingly beautiful…many of his analogies leave me with “wonderosity“…a mixture of wonder and curiosity. (another new word to add to our list!) The passion flower is the state flower of Tennessee … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When Eva Cate was over visiting this past Friday she wanted to check on the fairies and see how they were doing? She was delighted that all the popcorn she had left the fairies (before she went home … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As I started thinking about the blog today…I wondered how I could possibly “top” Thursday, July 16…a day filled with wonderful news for Betsy from her surgeon that all the cancer had been removed from the thyroid and … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: Sometimes we just need to sit back and let life surprise us…because it always does! For me…the most recent example appeared Wednesday afternoon on the white bench on my front porch. This card was actually in a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t we all wish  ‘ that the peace that passes all understanding‘ would automatically pop up when we are worried about a particular problem? Actually sometimes it does just that! Let me share Libby’s story with you…something rather extraordinary … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Eva Cate is a putterer….a tinkerer… whose favorite thing to do (in the whole wide world) is taking small objects and moving them from point A to Point “ I don’t know because you can’t find them again.” I must … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday I ate lunch at Eva’s Restaurant…if you have stopped in there this past week you have seen the black draped table (with flowers) where our former Mayor Berlin Myers ate breakfast about every single day of his … Continue reading →