It’s easy when you listen to television and see the ugliness that is sweeping our country to forget just what a great country we live in. And how most people are kind and courteous. As the Fourth of July approaches,…
Yearly Archives: 2018
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY
Dale and I discovered much about our country that we hadn’t known before when we followed his great-grandfather’s diary and visited the sites his great grandfather marched through during his slice of the Civil War. One thing that puzzled me…
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MY DIGITAL ADDICTION
Is there a twelve step program for digital addiction? If there isn’t, there should be. Had you asked me a week ago if I am addicted to my digital devices, I’d have said, “Me?” Chuckle. Chuckle. “No way.” That was…
MEMORY PLACEHOLDERS
Several years ago when we were just beginning to fall in love with the mountain valley where we now live, we rented a house and spent the Christmas holidays there. With us on that visit were my daughter who was…
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SMOKEY THE BEAR
When my husband and I rolled into tiny Capitan, New Mexico, we came face to face with Smokey the Bear. Yes, I’m referring to one of the most recognizable icons of our popular culture, the figurehead for fire prevention. Word…
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