\ “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” Unknown Last night was Halloween. Some people have fun on Halloween. Others don’t like the night at all. These days it’s mostly a fun night for kids to dress up in a wide assortment of costumes and go out on their streets to collect a little candy. Or …
“In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf It’s been a tough year for extended families. To get together or not to get together? Events and family gatherings we have taken for granted all our lives are now questions of should you or shouldn’t you do them. Reunions have been postponed a year. Birthdays celebrated without …
Not long ago I got to thinking about the odd moments that can rise from the murky depths of my memory, nudged out to my consciousness by a chance word, an image or even a sniff of some aroma. Sometimes photo can bring up that memory too the way this photo does of a walk in the woods one autumn …
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Autumn is a beautiful time in Kentucky, but I always want the leaves to cling to the branches of the maples a little longer. Some maples are still showing off their colorful leaves but the ones in my yard let theirs drift down to be chewed up by …
Have you ever heard somebody say something or someone threw a monkey wrench into it or maybe just a wrench into it? Here’s the meaning for that phrase from the free dictionary. “Sabotage or frustrate a project or plans, as in The boss threw a monkey wrench into our plans when he said we’d have to work Saturday. This transfer …
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Back when you were a kid, did you ever take part in a scavenger hunt? Or maybe you were the one figuring out the clues to make the hunt fun? I’ve done both. When I was a kid, my sisters and I would sometimes do a scavenger hunt or something like one by writing the clues on strips of paper …
Sometimes the best thing about going home is the food you might find on the dinner table. If that’s going home to a hometown festival, then it can be the special food they are featuring. My little town has a Burgoo Festival. Not this year due to the Covid19 pandemic, but we can hope next year. Here in Kentucky most …
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” I received so many great shout outs about their hometowns from readers in response to my recent newsletter. So I’m sharing a few more. As anybody knows who has ever lived in a small town …
My hometown – where I was born, where I was raised, where I keep all my yesterdays. ~Unknown Author It’s been a busy birthday month for me. I had this fun Caption Game going here on my blog posts, and thank you all so much for playing and making it so much fun. You did come up with some great …