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Dear Reader: Yesterday was a day for memories… celebrating family birthdays and soon-to-be weddings. These are times where we expect past memories to be triggered and pop up unexpectedly…but then sometimes it is the strangest things that take us back … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There is so much irony in life isn’t there? We spend so much of our childhood and youth longing to be grown up and have the freedom to do anything we like and go anywhere we wish…and then … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Last weekend when Eva Cate spent the night with me she had a moment of homesickness that coincided with bed time. I am afraid she has inherited her “Boo’s” (“When the crickets’ start a-chirping’ I start a’ crying“) … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It’s time to start sprucing up the garden to make way for the Easter Bunny! I still have a lot to do… first thing…I need to get an electrician out to help me check the fountain and see … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: After all the fun we have had commiserating over our ‘cardinal’ problems… resulting in a unified chorus of “Never more” (like Mike suggested) I got some sad news from Patty Knight yesterday. She found their little red bird … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: If this weather pattern, we are in right now, is any indication, it could be a long, hot dry summer. So, as much as watering is not my most favorite thing to do ( I see dollar bills … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Deep within you nothing is hopeless. You are a child of God and hope has been planted in you by God.”  Squire Rushnell thought about these words one afternoon after receiving 30 … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Last week, about mid-week, I sent Mandy a text simply asking how the week was going and how the grandchildren were doing….I got back three words. “I am exhausted!” Ah…that brought back memories. When Easter arrives late…teachers pay … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Isn’t it amazing how just by expanding our perception, even a little, the answers to many of our questions lay in wait…and always did. We just didn’t see them. Case in point: Thursday morning…I was on a mission. … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Legend has it that the ‘bigger than life’ actress, Mae West, coined the expression “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful” in her sultry, sexy voice to the delight of audiences everywhere. Today this expression has … Continue reading →