AS I SEE IT
Life is good with fresh food
It is the height of the gardening season.
A timeout can be helpful
Sometimes a time-out can be a good thing. My three-year old grandson, Nicholas, and I were playing one evening. I won our sword fight or whatever it was we were playing. He put his hands on his hips and told me I was in time-out. I was not to get …
Weddings and tornadoes a lot alike (5/27/03)
It was a long, harrowing, two-day drive to Houston. We drove through the edges of every thunderstorm and tornado that raged all the way from home until we were well into Mississippi. The decorative orange and white barrels marching down all the highways didn’t help matters.
Marline the make-up maven (6/2/03)
Now I know what it feels like to be a coloring book. As part of the preparations for my daughter’s wedding, she arranged for us and two of her bridesmaids to get our makeup professionally done.
Entertainment, enlightenment (6/30/03)
I tossed the cat into the bathtub the other day. It wasn’t because she had been ripping chunks of wood off the window frame … again; or because she wouldn’t let me brush her long hair; or even because she somersaulted off my knee when she attacked.
Lists for lists (7/7/03)
So what are you doing this weekend? I have plans to paint the trim on the house, fix the gutters, set out a couple plants, pull weeds and do a million other things that need to be done. My list is only two pages long but it is growing faster …
What to give a 'twisted' individual (6/16/03)
One of my sisters-in-law is graduating this weekend. She finished school last December but the ceremony isn’t until Saturday. She now spends her days taking X-rays of everything from body parts to Halloween candy.
Life goes in cycles (6/23/03)
It’s hard for me to believe that it has been thirty years since I went strawberry picking with my mother-in-law.
Journal leaves little room for other 'stuff' (7/21/03)
A couple of years ago my daughter gave me a book for Christmas. It was one of those that are supposed to contain memories of days gone by. There is a page for every day of the year. Each page has a single question. Some of the queries are simple …
How search led to treasure (8/18/03)
It was pure serendipity. I was searching for a picture of my baby brother, his wife and their son along with a stray cousin. It seems that they had recently entered a contest that involved making a boat out of unconventional materials and then racing it down the creek with …
Stuff kids eat is disgusting (8/4/03)
Why do kids insist on eating truly disgusting stuff? My nephew and his parents stopped by Sunday. He had a bag of what they called Bertie Botts.
Phone cord a vital link
“They may cut the umbilical cord, but they will never cut the phone cord,” is the saying on a magnet on my refrigerator. This truism by Cathy Guisewite illustrates how essential telephones have become.
What's a cubit? (7/14/03)
What’s a cubit? With all the rain we have had lately I am giving serious consideration to building an ark.
That 'new doll' smell
I bought a baby doll last weekend. It seems that my daughter’s niece had every toy a toddler could ask for except a baby doll.
Santa and chrysanthemums (9/15/03)
I saw Santa Claus the other day. I thought that it was Elvis at first as it was way too early for the fat guy (Santa, not Elvis) to be hanging around. The red suit and the flowing white beard confirmed that it really was Santa standing there guarding the …
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