I know. You’re probably shaking your head and ready to hit the off button on this post, but sometimes I discover the most interesting things when I get curious about something. A few weeks ago I spotted this old bottle of castor oil in my medicine cabinet. It has to be from years and years ago and I have no …
The Game of Life
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. ~Lewis Grizzard Do you like sports? Did you watch the Super Bowl? On my Facebook page tonight, I asked if my friends there would be watching the Super Bowl or reading or both. …
Dreams of a Clean Office
We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work. ~Marcus Buckingham That’s something I could dream. The house clean. All the mess …
Snow Means No School
February 2, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from very snowy Hollyhill, Kentucky. Do you like snow? I do. So much that I decided to write a poem about it. A Haiku. Do you know what that is? I sort of do. We’ve been talking about them in English at school. It’s a short three line poem. Not sure exactly how …
The Winners are No Mystery
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. ~Walt Disney You all know that I love books. I love reading them and I love writing them. Well, most of the time I love writing them. Sometimes when the doldrums hit in the middle of my writing, then I can get a little discouraged …
One Last Mystery Photo
Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have abused me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!” So the donkey said to Balaam, …
Another Washday Mystery Photo
“Enjoy the little things in life for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault Do you like little mysteries? I know some of you do since you’ve been coming back to guess on my new mystery photos. Linda says it’s fun to guess and good brain exercise. We all need that kind …
Visible Mysteries
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (Oscar Wilde) I finally posted a mystery picture that was a mystery to almost all of you. Can you see me doing a Snoopy dance? LOL. I did have one right answer, but not in the comments here. My sister-in-law knew what the mystery photo was and posted …
Mysteries Abound
As Grover, the Sesame Street monster, says in his cute book “A Monster at the End of the Book,” NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!! That’s one of my grandkids’ favorite books. I must have read it five hundred times and on one of the pages that’s what Grover yells. And of course, when I’m reading it, I yell too or …
Some Mysteries Are Easy to Solve
Okay, so maybe washboards/scrub boards aren’t as mysterious as I thought they might be. I imagined all you young people out there having no idea what a scrub board even was. Boy, was I wrong. The guesses came in fast and furious and right. A scarce few of you guessed something else, I think, just to make me feel better. …









