Friday, December 14, 2018
CHRISTMAS CARD LIST
I’ve been nagging myself to get at the task of sending out Christmas cards. It used to be a big deal, a box or two of 24 Hallmark or American Greetings cards, pull out the address book, and start addressing envelopes. And it was customary to include a status report letter about the past year’s...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
OLD SAYING
Mama used to have a lot of homilies and sayings, expressions that are not used much these days – partly because the world has evolved and most people wouldn’t get them. I’d scribbled one of them on a slip of paper. “Independent as a hog on ice.” Visualize a hog. Heavy body, skinny little legs,...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
SMALL WORLD, ISN’T IT
My friend Helen has been coming to the community center for as long as I’ve been volunteering there. She likes the puzzles & games room, plays bingo, donates items to the re-sale shop. She also volunteers at Emmanuel Methodist, serving lunches to school kids during the summer break and volunteers at...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
“BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE”
As for “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” it never was a Christmas song, per se. And it does illustrate the dating game as it was played in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Females were identified as targets in more than one romantic romp of a movie back then. But don’t get me started on that topic…. I’ve often wondered...
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Monday, December 10, 2018
I'LL HAVE SIX FRIES WITH THAT
Ore-Ida packs bags of frozen potatoes in various forms for warm-up in the microwave or toasting in the oven. Recently I bought one of those air fryer units that sit on your countertop – potatoes get soggy and chicken tenders get tough as shoe leather in the microwave. It takes a few more minutes to...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018
AS TOLD BY MY FIRST HUSBAND
THAT’S ‘ONE’ It seems a farmer had gone to town to find a wife. He met the daughter of a shopkeeper and began to pay court. After a suitable interval he asked the shopkeeper for his daughter’s hand. After the ceremony, the farmer helped his bride onto the seat of the buckboard, set her suitcase and...
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Saturday, December 8, 2018
WHAT’S NEWS?
Months ago when news of the Stormy Daniels payoff by Michael Cohen for DJT was breaking, Linda said she’d been following the story from sunup to sundown, glued to the TV. Well, she was glued as tightly as she could be, considering her hubby's recovery from a silent heart attack and her mother’s...
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Friday, December 7, 2018
RUDOLPH
I was sitting in my recliner, making one more Santa hat for the girls at the Center when there came a gentle knock at my door. Oh, no, I thought. Not the Witnesses again. They were just here a week ago. I peeped through the window. It was Rudolph, appropriately garbed in his jingle bell harness, his...
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Thursday, December 6, 2018
IT'S ALL CONNECTED
FRACTALS Tuesday, as I arrived The Center, a mathematically perfect snowflake landed on my sleeve, a fractal pattern of the first order. Most of the other snowflakes had been bumped and lumped on the way down, but by some stroke of luck this one survived and landed on my coat sleeve. Inside, the...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
SOMETHING FOR THURSDAY'S WRITING GROUP
A WRITER’S NATURE John Gardner wrote a book called On Becoming a Novelist, published by Harper & Row in 1983, and I have a well-thumbed paperback copy that lives on my bookshelf. The inside cover page includes a list of other books he’s written – takes up the whole page. I’ve had this book and read...
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