Author Archives: Becky Dingle

  Dear Reader: Each year I try to educate myself a little bit more about each of our national holidays and this year I discovered some new historical information about the creation of Memorial Day. Here are five things I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Saturday morning I woke up early… refreshed and ready to join the rest of the people on our little planet…at least in my small corner of it. I went to the Farmer’s Market…got there early (around 8) and … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I’m back home! Got in yesterday afternoon….rested, relaxed, a touch of tan, and filled with happy memories. I will start going back through emails and comments made by you while I was gone. Can hardly wait to read … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: We are having so much fun…we’ve decided to extend our summer retreat another day and return home Friday afternoon. So I will make this blog pretty short…the sun and surf are calling!  Jackson made a ‘stop and … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The sense of smell…isn’t it a wonderful gift from God? And when it comes to memories and feelings of love this special sense plays such a big role in producing long-lasting memories of the comforts of home. I … Continue reading →

          Jake: One month, eight months Dear Reader: Shakespeare once wrote in a line from his play Hamlet: (Conversation between Hamlet and Horatio) “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: The last morning at home before leaving for Edisto…I walked out to the garden and there stood (quite proudly) the most beautiful lily which looked like a combination of sunrise and sunset….it took my breath away. It … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: You may have heard talk of some women’s organizations initiating a political fight now (for the year 2020 ) to remove Andrew Jackson from the twenty-dollar bill (like he, unceremoniously, removed the Five major Eastern Indian tribes to Oklahoma … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Finally…the Ya Summer Retreat is here and all of us are beyond happy…we have so much to catch up on, with some birthdays also thrown into the mix….more fun awaits than you can “shake a stick at.” (Quite … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: When Anne and I took a two-week international creativity workshop almost a decade ago in France (Can it really be that long ago?) one of the activities we discussed and practiced doing was learning how to take … Continue reading →