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Dear Reader: If you have ever had time to think about some of the best analogies or metaphors for life…you would be hard-pressed to find one better than a train. Humans have had a love affair with the train since … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I just finished my question from StoryWorth for Week Three. I am really enjoying working on it…it is bringing back memories I thought once lost. This week it asked me to describe my earliest memories of mother. I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Anne texted me Saturday afternoon to tell me that she was bringing my birthday present over yesterday…her watercolor of “Big Red,” my extraordinary twelve year-old red geranium… who has been my front porch “guardian angel” through the ups … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Autumn is universally voted as the world’s favorite season…not just a favorite season for one country or even region…but a global attraction that never lasts long enough for most of us. In the low country of South Carolina … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I always loved singing the old African-American spirituals at church camps each summer. Then later, as an American History teacher, I loved playing the songs for the students when I taught them about the Underground Railroad…Harriett Tubman, and … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: What if your legacy isn’t what you leave behind, but something you create, every day of your life? What if you started acting the way you want to be remembered–right now–and shared your unique gifts with the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Since Tuesday was a rainy day…with soft drops falling like a heavy mist… settling in around the plants, flowers, and trees…I decided to lug all the mums and fall flowers off the front porch down to the sidewalk … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: After running some errands yesterday I got back home…plopped all the bags down and then plopped myself down too. I turned on the television and listened as a young author was being interviewed about his bestseller book titled: … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When my second question today popped up from StoryWorth it asked…”What was my dad like when I was a child?” I contemplated switching the question (which you can do) to something else..since I had already told the little … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: How many times have I caught myself saying this expression “It’s always something”…when life finally seems to moving along smoothly and then suddenly my world is turned upside down. At the time I received my breast cancer diagnosis … Continue reading →