View from the sheepfold
I Voted
One of my early childhood memories was talking to my father about the presidential election. It must have been 1956, when Eisenhower and Nixon ran for re-election, because I was only a year old in 1952. An airplane had dropped balloons and flyers down on our Long...
Friends, Like Siblings, Aren’t Exactly Alike
Our friends are not necessarily just like us, any more than our DNA is identical to that of our siblings. In my birth family of seven, I share some characteristics with my siblings, yet we are each unique in many ways. In The Three Sisters Series, Haleigh Abbott’s...
Demonstrating Faith by Prayer
A teen boy once asked me if I thought it was all right to ask God for a camera. He didn't say why he asked me this question. Prayer by a believer acknowledges God's sovereignty, power, and faithfulness. It also demonstrated faith on the part of the person who prays,...
An M&M Day
NATIONAL M&M DAY, OCTOBER 13 In the early days of television--not in the beginning, but close to the beginning--an ad appeared on TV in glowing black and white: a girl and a boy, about 8 years old, the girl in an organdy Sunday-best dress and white gloves,...
Autumn Poem
AUTUMN POEM When songbirds flock together, Preparing for southward flight, And shorter days spread darkness Into longer nights, The wind blows pinecones from the trees While acorns plunk to earth, And frisky squirrels hop to and fro Hoarding food for winter’s dearth....
Do It Now or Later?
Fight Procrastination Day! There's really a day set aside for this? Procrastinate. Do you? Procrastinate, I mean. If you’re like me, there are times when you put off or delay, or absolutely neglect, doing something you have to do or should be doing. Procrastination...
Up and Away!
Before the pandemic, we missed the Susquehanna Balloon Festival because we went out of town for our granddaughter’s birthday. After being cancelled for two years, it resumed this year a week earlier, so my husband and I attended. The weather couldn’t have been better:...
Cloud Watching
CLOUD WATCHING - A PHOTOJOURNEY Clouds aren't what they seem from down below. We can't really walk on them, nor are they cottony soft as they appear when we look up at them. Clouds aren't permanent; they come and go. I'm a cloud watcher, and I enjoy photographing...
“SAY IT WITH FLOWERS”
“SAY IT WITH FLOWERS” Floriography, the language of flowers, became popular during the Victorian era. Many kinds of messages were sent via flowers. In fact, floriography became so complicated that dictionaries were created to explain the meaning of floral “gifts.”...
Family Reunions, In-Laws, and Celebrations
A Time to Remember One of my fond childhood memories is of our vacations in Rhode Island, where we visited my parents’ families. A family reunion with my father’s very large extended family highlighted most of those vacations. As the youngest of six siblings, I looked...
Book Characters and a Birthday
If there’s a bad boy in A Heart’s Journey, it’s Derek Hall. Good-looking and charming (when he wants to be), he’s a bully, and Haleigh had been one of his victims in high school. The former football star of Greenlawn High School was the drunk driver responsible for...
Friend or Foe?
Meet More Characters from A Heart's Journey Have you ever met someone for the first time, and they already have something against you, but you don’t know what it is? TIA Tia Merino works for Willie White at Floral Creations. I don't have a photo of Tia, but I imagine...
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