top of page
Search
Apr 9, 2023
I Believe
Easter 2023 I Believe (Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman) I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. I...
Apr 7, 2023
The Penstocks of Life
Good Friday 2023 A penstock at a hydroelectric dam, such as Pine Flat on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, is a massive...
Mar 21, 2023
The Graphic Side of Me
Spring 2023 There are days, of late, when I dearly miss the days of my technical writing. Not the tech-writing per se, but the assembling...
Mar 15, 2023
Leading from The Front
15 March 2023 One quintessential quality of the American is that the soldier, as well as the patriot, does not accept a command, order,...
Mar 4, 2023
My Handiwork
March 2023 While the world outside rages with rain and snow and recessionary lunacy, I’ve been busy, wearing my little fingers to the...
Mar 1, 2023
A Pot Pourri of Thoughts
March 2023 The days of our lives to remember are every day, not merely during officially sanctioned holidays and the fêtes declared...
Feb 16, 2023
The Trail Ahead
16 February 2023 Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours hand-stitching edging and sewing new buttons onto a rather plain blouse. I’ve...
Feb 15, 2023
P B & J
Mid-February 2023 Peanut butter and jelly: It’s as American as apple pie, but apple pie, at least the store-bought kind, ain’t what it...
Feb 14, 2023
Till There Was You
Valentine’s Day 2023 Till There Was You By Meredith Willson There were bells on a hill But I never heard them ringing No, I never heard...
Feb 11, 2023
More About Buttermilk
11 February 2023 “We” — my Muse and I — have climbed down from that Uncompahgre Plateau, now that THE SILENT HEART has been completed,...
Feb 1, 2023
Beautiful Dreamer
1 February 2023 Composed by Stephen Foster, “Beautiful Dreamer” is one of those songs that elicit sentiments from the heart that cannot...
Jan 11, 2023
Buttermilk - Ready for His Close-Up
11 January 2023 This past December, Chance the wonder-hound needed to have a skin tag removed. It was supposed to have been a minor...
Jan 6, 2023
The Winter of My Discontent
January 2023 The winter of my discontent was spent looking for answers that could not be found anywhere but within my self. That winter...
Dec 30, 2022
Dead Week Special: The Cookie Rises
30 December 2022 When I was industriously labouring in Office World at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dead Week was the name that one...
Dec 25, 2022
Martha Blah Blah
Christmas 2022 This children’s book was published in 1996. The authoress is Susan Meddaugh, and I have to thank her for one of the most...
Dec 24, 2022
The Shopping Quilt
Christmas 2022 The Shopping Quilt Shopping is a woman’s art for what to hold and for what to part from: the past, or even the present....
Dec 24, 2022
Noël 2022 - Gifts from This Writer
Noël 2022 Gifts from This Writer Twas the night before Christmas and I will not deny I was editing scenes of a novel on the sly. I’d been...
Dec 21, 2022
The Last One
21 December 2022 Sometime during Thanksgiving, Dear Husband half-jokingly said to me that I’ve got six weeks left in the year to write...
Dec 4, 2022
About Democracy
4 December 2022 Democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in Congress! Today, I started the holiday decorating. A cold, wet day, with...
Nov 11, 2022
Jack Jones - Lady
11 November 2022 This afternoon, I pieced together my Shopping Quilt, listening to Jack Jones. I used to own CDs of Mr. Jones, but for...
bottom of page