Author Archives: Becky Dingle

  Dear Reader: Within a two foot radius in my garden…there are three different shades of green growing stronger every day…stemming from dark to light to yellow-green…all strikingly beautiful. I remember a couple of years ago when I toured Linwood’s … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I find that in this stage of life my imagination has been re-born. It isn’t that it ever truly disappeared…I have always loved creativity…it is just that it had to take a back seat to the reality of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Sometimes… how I arrive at the “thought for the day’ in my daily blogs… is a combination of seemingly unrelated incidences that finally jolt my memories and produce an idea for the blog. In today’s blog…several reflections merged. … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: I just recently discovered a quite interesting story about the Beatles and one of the last songs written by them in the album Abbey Lane called “The End.” The quote in the title of this blog is … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Spring is officially here and somehow I always feel that if it is “official”…(the real deal…the equinox…) then the weather has to start behaving itself and stop its unpredictability and see-saw winter-spring games. Perhaps Charles Dickens (Great Expectations) said … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: As I sat rocking little Lach Thursday…I had time to dream the dreams of one generation to the next…and the next… imagining what his life will be like. Every loved one’s hope for the baby’s future… is … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I arrived home around 4:30 yesterday afternoon (following a three-day “tilt-a-twirl” tornado)… and my head is still spinning in happiness. Even now…parts of the last three days are beginning to blur and run together. I fear if I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I have had people ask me what I have learned from having a garden these past two years (for the first time in my life) and I can sum it up in two words: patience and surprise! * … Continue reading →

  Let me interrupt this blog reading for a very important announcement: Which way did you vote?   *** The baby is a : BOY! weighing in at 9 pounds 13 ounces and 22 1/4 inches…a BIG little brother for … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Haven’t we all experienced watching the “afterglow” of a sun setting? The sun has disappeared below our visual horizon but a strip (of the most beautiful colors) remains behind bearing a   message from God. There is nothing … Continue reading →