Ripples On Our Ponds

Ripples On Our Ponds

On September 1 – my birthday – I poured a cup of coffee and started up my computer. I checked e-mail, then Facebook, and discovered many greetings. What a great way to start the day! I replied to each of them, considering the Mad Hatter’s idea of an Un-birthday. Just think. A birthday every day […]

Just For Fun Friday 09/06/13

Just For Fun Friday 09/06/13

Did you ever have a line run through your head, over and over again?  It might have been something you heard on the news, or in a passing conversation.  It might have really not been the line at all, but one that was triggered by the sounds of another.  That was what inspired this parody, written […]

The Older We Get

The Older We Get

“When I was a child, I thought as a child.” Remember thinking our parents had it easy? They could sleep late if they wanted to, could eat whatever they wanted, and didn’t have any worries, any pressures. We couldn’t wait to grow up. I had a sheltered childhood. My parents had great confidence in me, […]

Just For Fun Friday 08/30/2013

From our Travel Album A trip to West Texas – Ft. Davis, Ft. Stockton, Lajitas, and Big Bend Nat’l Park in - 2000!    Seems like yesterday. Big Bird’s got nothing on this fella…can you tell him how to get (how to get)  to Sesame Street?  And…THIS  is the “Great River”??? I was disappointed in the Rio Grande!  But the […]

Giving Credit

Giving Credit

My son, who is as focused on music as I am on writing, chastises me about not knowing what singers are in which band, who wrote or performed my favorite music, and other things like that. I am lucky to remember the NAME of the song, much less all that other information. I am purely […]