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Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I woke to the sound of distant rumblings of thunder and then the pitter-patter of rain softly falling on the deck. It was about 6:00 a.m. so I rolled back over to snooze awhile longer with … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I will remember the summer of 2016 as the summer of garden mysteries. The first mystery was waiting for my moon flowers to appear and bloom on my deck, only to discover (in August) that I was waiting, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: If you think the picture (above) looks like it is leaning, you are right.  I didn’t check it until I got home. I had my index finger poised to hit “fix” and then “straighten” on the computer but … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I can’t believe that it has been six years since I (with trembling fingers) touched the keyboard and started telling my story, along with St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope (benchmark) role in it. When I first saw the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I woke up fairly early and half-asleep wandered out on the deck to look over my garden. (I had watered the night before and I was trying to determine if I needed to water again before … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Haven’t we all heard the expression, “It is what it is” from others and even perhaps, occasionally, coming from our own lips? It is usually accompanied with a shrug of resignation. This expression, or the equivalent of it … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Thursday while Mandy ran into Old Navy at Town Centre in Mount Pleasant (to look for a skirt) I told her I would take Eva Cate into Barnes and Noble for light refreshments. I let her select her … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I wish I knew why I can’t keep a charm bracelet “growing” by adding more charms or for that information…why I can’t stop losing charm bracelets from the past. I got one for high school graduation, one for … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: You might remember about a week ago I told you about a little novel (Save My Place) I had just finished that I enjoyed very much – written by a southern author with a very southern name – … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Now I know it is August and school opens again…just around the corner. Why?  Mother Nature has dropped lots and lots of “hints” in the yard. The pine tree droppings sneak in on me every August. Up until … Continue reading →