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My, how times have changed
Posted Tuesday, May 14, at 11:46 AM Where I come from, there's breakfast, dinner and supper, not lunch and dinner. The dinner meal is at noon and the supper meal is around 6 p.m. or it was until I quit cooking supper. Now it's called eating out or junk food time. Time brings many changes, not only in the way we label things. There's been a change in what's on the table, too...
Memories of Mama Mothers are so important. I can't imagine what life would have been like without my mother. We called her mama. Mama was always there. When my brothers and sister and I got home from school, she was there waiting. Her life was wrapped around her children. When we were at play in the yard, Mama would stand in the doorway and keep a watchful eye...
Hope for cancer victims Saturday morning there will be many Clay County cancer survivors wearing purple tee shirts that bear the words I AM HOPE. They will be walking in the annual Relay for Life survivor's walk as part of the American Cancer Society's awareness campaign. The event will take place at the Piggott Community Center beginning at 10 a.m...
Searching for honesty I used to be naive. When I was young, I trusted everyone. Then I grew older. I was blindsided by a couple of people I trusted. I think I began to change after that. I became disillusioned. I didn't believe everything that came out of a person's mouth...
Music soothes the soul It is said that music soothes the soul. I certainly believe that music plays an important role throughout life. As a child, my first recollection of music is hearing my mother sing lullibies as she cradled a sleeping baby. Later I heard her singing as she went about her daily chores. While she swept the floors or cooked a meal, she would be singing some country song popular at the time. She loved Ernest Tubb, the Texas Troubadour, and Roy Acuff songs...
The quest for gold I'm in the process of reading about the gold rush days in 1849 in California territory. The book is titled Seeds of Hope by Kristiana Gregory.. No, it isn't boring because it is told through the eyes of a fourteen year old girl, Susanna, who keeps a diary of her daily life in a gold mining camp. She has a sister, Clara, who is sixteen...
The serenity of birds Sometimes I like it quiet. When the din of the surroundings overpowers me, I want to close my ears and drown out the noise. In restaurants and stores we hear the ringing and dinging of cell phones. In places where televisions are for sale, all the sets flash in unison as they cry, "Buy me, buy me."...
The parakeet rode a motorcycle Once upon a time I had a parakeet that could slam dunk. In his cage there was a tiny plastic Donald Duck that he learned to play with. He just loved that toy. If I removed the toy while cleaning the cage, the parakeet would run up and down his perch, screaming to high heaven until I returned his toy...
Do you remember when? What do children do for fun these days? When I was a little girl I used to play hopscotch with my lfriends, On the concrete sidewalk in front of the house, I would draw the hopscotch with chalk. We used a flat piece of glass for a marker but you could use a bottle top or a stone....
The man gene Did you ever hear of the man gene? Supposedly it's the gene that causes man to act as he does. It's unlike the woman gene Of course there are anatomical differences. A man has broader shoulders and is usually taller than a woman A man's skull is almost always thicker and stronger than a woman's. In other words, he's thick headed...
Help, I'm smothering I'm smothering in housework. Not that I do it, but it's there, stalking, unattended in every room. I hate to tell you, but I just today stored my Christmas stuff. Oh, I had it boxed but I hadn't taken it to the root cellar where it languishes all year. (Yes, my old house has a root cellar)...
The world is a rough room Billy Crystal said this week that the world is a rough room. Some days I feel that is true. I think as a person gets older, he begins to face the real world. Illness strikes, infirmities surface and life gets harder. Just last week, a friend had pneumonia and was rushed to the hospital...
I love you emails My daughter and I email each other a lot. She lives in a nearby town so we often email our goodnights. We give a capsule message about our activites of the day. Then we end the emails with "I love you." Somewhere along the line the "I love you" message endings became a battle of wits...
How about some alligator stew? This isn't to scare anybody but last April I saw a news report that said there were alligators in Kennett, Mo. I know we usually think of alligators a lot further south than that. In fact, I saw several gators while on a guided swamp tour in Mississippi a few years ago...
Views on television On the table next to my recliner are books I am reading or intend to read, also a coaster for my coffee cup, and a TV guide. Those essentials needed when I watch television...too much television. What I needed to resolve in 2013 was to watch less television. There's no need for all that dribble that I tune into...
Not too late for resolutions I can't believe 2013 is here. It's time to make and break resolutions. I can't remember the last one I made or if I kept it. It probably had to do with striving to be a better person. I know it's hard to break old habits. Smokers can attest to that...
A time to throw away Resolutions are now full steam ahead. I have resolved to read more and discard more. Recently I was reading some familiar passages of scripture in Ecclesiastes 3 that begin: There is a time for everything And a season for every activity under heaven:...
Beginning the New Year with Super Glue I started out New Year's Eve by supergluing my fingers together. It took about two days to remove all the glue. I was doing a stupid thing anyway. I knocked one of my Christmas ornaments onto the floor and broke it. It was a shiny stagecoach, expensive for a tree ornament. What broke was a delicate wheel on the stagecoach so I decided to repair it. I gathered the broken pieces and headed for my Super Glue, alias Krazy Glue...
New Year reflections I'm thinking of a little third grader. When asked what she wanted for Christmas, she said she wanted snow. She just wanted snow. No amount of coaxing could get her to name anything else. "I just want snow for Christmas," she would repeat. Well, she must be happy now...
Waiting on a miracle "In seven seconds, share this message with seven people and you will receive a miracle tomorrow." Anyone who has a personal computer will likely receive messages like the above one. There are promises being made everyday with directions to forward a certain email to others, usually seven, 10 or 12 people. If you do, then good things are bound to come to you., the email says...
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