Author Archives: Becky Dingle

Dear Reader: The subject of making time for contemplation in our daily lives continuously reappears in my posts as I grow older. Overall I am a ” people person” and love social situations, especially family gatherings and friendship endeavors, along … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: In the title picture ( from Alice Through the Looking Glass) Alice and Humpty are discussing play-on-word games. Alice remarks: ” The question is, whether you make words mean so many different things.” It might seem too simplified … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When things get tough and life appears to go wrong, don’t we have a tendency to think something is the matter with us… we must be doing something wrong? Another example of why we shouldn’t jump so fast … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Monday morning I set my mobile phone timer to go off at 6 am so I could check to see if my post ( I had written the evening before) had published… for some crazy reason when I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 she was excited and terrified simultaneously of her first weekly meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. As a youth growing up during WWII she revered Churchill and like most … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Some of you are already aware that after returning home from their ( Tommy and Kaitlyn) ” Covid” fifth wedding anniversary in Ireland… there was a prolonged respite as it took Tommy a couple of more weeks to … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday… 100 Rainbow Road, felt like a train station where friends, surprise gifts, and unexpected memories popped up to turn an ordinary day into an extraordinary one! It started with a book trade between Anne and myself… I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: If you were like me… I spent a bulk of time changing television stations yesterday between the happy upbeat Queen’s Jubilee and the sad but determined Olena Zelensky-wife of Ukrainian President Zelensky -interview with Robin Roberts. As the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Memorial Day… Kaitlyn and Tommy gave me a beautiful gemstone bracelet from Ireland! I haven’t taken it off since… so special! But just as memorable was this compilation of Irish folk tales given to me also by them..,that … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: This will be a short post today because I had a l-o-n-g day yesterday at Eva Cate’s Graduation Day Ceremony . Remember I told you I was packing a lot of Kleenex for the tears I knew I … Continue reading →