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Dear Reader: I think it happened about a year ago… Lachlan wanted to know about his birthstone… apparently at school a group of little girls had gathered to ooh and aah over a birthstone ring one of them had gotten … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I think it happened about a year ago… Lachlan wanted to know about his birthstone… apparently at school a group of little girls had gathered to ooh and aah over a birthstone ring one of them had gotten … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I am certainly in love with autumn today … because it feels like autumn today. It is overcast which lends itself to low sixties starting out… with a whisper of a breeze that actually made me shiver down … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The only time I wanted to be an artist ( with all my heart) was the night I put an enlarged photo next to my mother’s coffin and another at the entrance to the door in the funeral … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: While researching a completely different topic yesterday… the fabric of our lives…I suddenly found this title picture popping up depicting a stone hashtag. Dating back to the Stone Age in a cave in South Africa … there was … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I love Carole King’s vision of her ” Way Over Yonder” secret place. ” Yonder” is a word derived from the Dutch word-‘ ” ginder ” meaning ” over there” and the English ‘yon.’ ( same meaning-just connected … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: While driving in the car yesterday… the radio announcer said. Did you know that the month of September is the most popular month used in songs… titles and lyrics? I eat trivia news like that up … so … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: While attending a teacher’s three day workshop convention, one year in my early teaching career, I listened as the moderator announced the different names of the workshops being offered and when she got to one… I was so … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Have you ever ” thought” about how many different types of thoughts cross your mind every single day? Well recently the Cleveland Clinic published these ” brain facts” after a long study to discover the number of thoughts … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Chaucer gets credit today for this familiar quote but Sir Walter Scott alluded to it ( also) in several of his writings. I grew up hearing adults around me use it on occasion and never gave it much … Continue reading →