A Christmas or two ago the other grandmother of two of my grandchildren gave each a Kindle reader. I in turn gave them Amazon gift cards so they could load their Kindles. Later I asked how they liked their…
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LEARNING FROM LETTERMAN
One item on my husband’s Bucket List has been for many years to see the taping of the David Letterman show. On a recent trip to see our daughter in New York, a friend of hers was able…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: bucket lists, David Letterman, fame, Manhattan, New York City, Okies, television show taping, the Olympics, theatre district, Twelve Years a Slave, World Trade Center
THE BIBLE
b Back in the mid 1970s, Alex Haley, a black man descended from slaves, electrified the United States with his book , ROOTS. Millions of people watched the gripping mini-series showing his detective work in tracing his family back to…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Alex Haley, ancestors, Bible, Blue Bells, Cowslip, family, genealogy, ROOTS, Sweet William
STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND
Men wear guns in the post office. Men wear guns in the grocery store. Deer graze a few feet outside my bedroom window. One has figured out how to sneak grain from our bird feeder. The Sangres…
ONE DAY AT A TIME
I keep a journal. I know. Nothing out of the ordinary about that. A lot of people celebrate and cherish their lives by documenting their days. In my journal I record anything that is unusual or noteworthy at least to…
