Feet under the Table

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 8 Comments

Food tastes better when you eat it with your family. I enjoy having my children with their feet under my table to share a meal. I like sitting down with friends to share a meal. While the food is good, the conversation is better. For several years, we’ve gone on what we call a sibling retreat with my husband’s family …

How Cold Is It? Record Breaking Times and Memories

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How cold is it? Plenty cold where I am here in Kentucky. When I peeked at the thermometer this a.m. it showed minus 8. While that might not be so chilly for some of you northern folks, down here in the almost south, it’s cold. But worse, they say it’s not supposed to get over 5 degrees today. And that’s …

Grandparents Day

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

Today is National Grandparents Day. President Carter proclaimed the first Sunday after Labor Day to be Grandparents Day in 1978. The history I read says the day originated with a Fayette County, WV housewife, Marian McQuade whose primary motivation was to promote the need to pay attention to lonely elderly people in nursing home. She also hoped having a special …