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Dear Reader: The plant ( anthurium) is composed of two Greek words ” anthos” -flower and ” oura” flowering tail. Today there are over 1000 different types of anthuriums. You might have seen pictures in the past of my orange … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Aren’t we all guilty sometimes of pushing ourselves to the point of complete exhaustion… without even being consciously aware of doing so… since each separate situation leading up the final ” flop” were all doable and even fun … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There is no doubt in my mind that all Sherry’s loved ones, family and friends, certainly understand Pooh’s comment: ” If you weren’t you, then we’d all be a bit less we.” As Rev. Dr. Frank McCracken, pastor … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Before I start the post today… I have to admit what I just did by mistake… instead of writing ” Dear Reader” I wrote ” Dear Santa.” Aren’t there some childhood memories so ingrained in our psyches that, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Today I am driving to Laurens… my family’s ancestral home town and a place that holds a myriad of emotions… mostly good but also a reminder of the loss of loved ones who went before… who actually gave … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Knowledge is an accumulation of facts and learned experiences we absorb throughout our life. Wisdom is knowing when to apply our knowledge to a situation and when to save it for a later and more appropriate challenge that … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The more I thought about this saying… the more I liked it. If we leave this earth still wondering what people will think of us after we are gone and even worrying about it… I think sadly we … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: John Kieran once wrote reflectively ” I am part of all I have read.” I recognize this statement almost every day of my life. If we were lucky enough to be read to… growing up… don’t we remember … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday was a dot to dot day… where similar thoughts from different programs blended into the same message. We are all connected… We are all connected… We are all connected. It started with a HGTV show about a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Over the years… haven’t we all agreed that lightening and clearing out excessive junk, we have accumulated over time, produces such a freeing feeling … we are out of the jail we built around us with too much … Continue reading →