Author Archives: Becky Dingle

Dear Reader: If you are a Lowcountry gardener… the most challenging time of the year has arrived. How to keep the spring/ early summer plants alive! It ” ain’t” easy! Overwater and you get root rot, under water and you … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Some days the past just seems to creep up on us… leaving us lost in memory … thinking to ourselves… ” Those really were the days.” When I first visited Hampton Plantation in 1973 the old Rutledge plantation … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: We humans tend to like pigeon-holing others with negative similes like ” stubborn as a mule.” In fact the American Donkey and Mule Society defends this attribute in mules. Mules aren’t really stubborn … they just won’t put … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The other day I happened upon some witty, tongue-in cheek adult observations about life lessons from fairy tales and I just started laughing. Since there isn’t enough laughter in the world I selected a few examples and added … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Today if you take the B. I. R. D. S. scavenger hunt in downtown Summerville you can use the hidden clues on your guide to find the Carolina Parakeet. The rhyming limerick clue reads: “At Town Hall, there’s … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t we all have those days that just seem to start out wrong and go downhill from there? After the first five things in our to-do list goes ” south” we know it is probably going to continue … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Some times it takes seeing someone else’s thoughts in written form to realize we are not alone in our own feelings-something akin to a broken heart-but not necessarily over a particular person … but a situation. ( Source: … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: This blog post started eleven years ago with a God Wink and it has never stopped winking since! It was my deja vu moment when I realized that if God is pulling off amazing feats for us … … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Thursday morning I checked all my flowers and plants to make sure everything had survived Elsa! I will have to say that Elsa was the loudest storm we have had in quite awhile and it wasn’t just the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: What a day and night we had Wednesday with Tropical Storm Elsa …slowly heading towards the Carolinas-the anxiety I felt had little to do with the storm itself but the domino effect on two of our families. Mollie … Continue reading →