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  • Still can’t believe it. . .

    I am now a retired schoolteacher.  Retired!  Me!  I remember when I first started teaching in 1982, I would look at retiring teachers or teachers nearing retirement and wonder how they stayed in teaching so long.  I didn’t think I could do it.  And now, here I am, joining their ranks. Leaving was bittersweet.  My…

  • Pride and sadness. . .

    You may have heard of the tragic accident that claimed the life of a young man who stopped on the side of a Florida highway to assist a stranded motorist. As he stepped to the driver side window, another vehicle slammed into them, killing the young man who happened to be one of my former students and one of my…

  • So Pretty. . .

    Look at how my sister Brenda solved her bed-in-front-of-a-window  problem in her master bedroom.  She used sheets as drapes across  the entire wall behind the bed.  It calms down the space and  makes me want to crawl under the covers with a good book. Well done, Sis!  Now, would you like to do mine? XOXO!…

  • Jan. 1

    January 1, a day of new beginnings.  I begin putting away Christmas decorations.  It’s weird how what should be the sad,  lonely starkness of my home sans Christmas instead looks clean  and fresh.  Welcome, 2012, with your promise of better days and  prosperity.  We won’t entertain any thoughts of possible loss, sadness, or despair, but…

  • My two deer kills. . .

    My first deer was taken opening day of deer season in November 2010.  I got my second deer Thanksgiving weekend 2011.  Both were shot with my trusty Remington 243 rifle I purchased from Walmart!  I must admit that I was sad to see them die, but the venison in the freezer has been well worth…