February 1, 1966 Jocie Brook here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I’ll have to keep Dad from seeing that headline. He would sit me down and give me a long talk about hating any day. He’d tell me that every day was a gift from the Lord and one to be glad to face. He would say he learned how precious …
January – the Month of Dreary or the Month of Beginnings?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. (Edgar Allen Poe) Can’t you imagine Poe writing that on a January Monday midnight?Chilled to the bone and unhappy, but with pen in hand? I hope you’re not cold or unhappy. But let me ask you. Do you like winter? Do you like January? Or is it the month …
The Staying Power of Jupiterian Fropples
February 24, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Things have been pretty calm in Hollyhill. That’s the way it is in the winter around here. If we don’t have a big snowstorm, then nothing really happens in February. Just cold winds and days you think spring will never get here. School is extra trouble in February. Teachers must …
Valentines and Hearts
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire What would life be without love? Isn’t it great that we have a day set aside to celebrate love? In of all months, February. That month of the year when those of us in the northern hemisphere are beginning to be weary of winter. The month when …