I mournfully peered out of my living room window to my patch of daffodils by the sidewalk. The “daffys” were blooming with their boisterous yellow cheerfulness. They had been bringing a joyful smile to my heart every day as I anticipated the green grass and the blue skies of spring that they announce every year. more »
I am just waiting, sitting in a hospital room chair while my mother dozes in her room. Across from me, the television flashes at whispered volume. (I am only partially following the program as some down under zookeepers talk about testing a Tasmanian devil for allergies.) –Because the real reason for my being and waiting more »
In May of 2023, Kent County broke ground on the last cell available in our landfill. The new 6-acre section is the last of the 105 acres that has been allotted for our garbage. Each year, our landfill takes in about 306,000 tons of trash. As the only active landfill in Kent County, we have more »
I was despondent as I pulled out the mop and started working on cleaning up the floors. The white tracks were all over the wood parquet in the front hall and the dining room. The footprints were unmistakable, they were imprints from the tread on the bottom of shoes. The tracks also wove an unwelcome more »
In many people’s homes this Christmas, there is an empty blue chair. — It may not be literally blue, excepting the La-Z- Boy recliners and the BarcaLoungers and other upholstered pieces of furniture. It could be a regular old brown wooden kitchen chair. It may not even be a chair; it could be a couch more »
“Honey, could you please bring in some more chairs?” Our Christmas gatherings would be complete failures if all of the people that we love did not each have a chair to sit down on. Our most beloved and frequently used chairs come from our dining room. We have a lovely set of maple Hitchcock Chairs more »
For the fourth Sunday of Advent, the theme traditionally is Love. While it is easier to find Christmas carols for the other Sundays of Advent, namely Hope, Peace and Joy; there just are not that many Christmas carols that speak about God’s love. So I decided to write some new lyrics to an old tune. more »
On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 2:50 am, EST, something interesting happened. The sun crossed an imaginary line above the earth’s equator. And for a single moment, the earth was neither tilted away or toward the sun by 23.5 degrees. It was perpendicular to the sun. While we all probably missed it because we more »
It is that time of year again, when our kids are fortunate to get to go back to school. You can’t miss it. The stores have set up huge displays of school supplies: pushpins and pencils, post-it notes and pens. Our college students have packed up all of their “most essential” items and are now more »
Do you like rainy days? Typically, we humans consider rain a sad event. We may use the phrase, “Raining on your parade”, or we talk about events being washed out. All of us have made plans to go camping or to have a picnic, only to be met with disappointment as rain or thunderstorms sweep more »
