Month: October 2000

Pink ribbons Breast cancer awareness becomes a personal issue Pink ribbons sprouted on shoulders and posters during October, Breast Cancer Awareness month. However, my pink jeweled ribbon pin that I was given a couple years ago stayed in my jewelry box. I didn’t think about it. It wasn’t my issue. Our family does not have…

Through the eyes of a child As a first grader in a new school with half the year over, I tried to fit into an established classroom routine. It wasn’t always easy. Especially the day the teacher said, “write your alphabet, as you remember it.” I knew the alphabet, but that phrase “as you remember…

Serendipity is the gift of finding agreeable things when you are not exactly looking for them. Take the wall mounted hand crank pencil sharpener my husband bought shortly after we were married. I had not considered buying one. However, it proved to be so handy, that when it wore out, I insisted it was an…

Friday night, I got a late start on my drive to visit with my son’s family in New Orleans. Usually I would be west of Jackson, Miss., by 8 p.m., but Friday, I was just east of Monroe, La. It was a perfect night to listen to a library audio mystery. The wind was still,…

My mother, a farm girl from the hills of New York, surprised me one day when she said, “I always intended to go back to college and get a degree.” She never did. Instead she projected her dream onto the five children she bore her first six years of marriage. One by one, thanks to…