Month: April 2015

I received another wonderful email today with the greatest news. Another person has cash, lots and lots of cash, which they want to give to me. Just me. I am so lucky. Today’s email said, “My name is Maureen Hinckley, I am donating $550,000USD to you. Contact me via my email at (MaureenHinckley@foxmail.com) for further…

No secret, I like sewing. I also like sewing machines. They fascinate me. They have ever since I took home economics in junior high and received my own sewing machine as a high school graduation gift from my parents. The Youtube video “Secret Life of Machines: The Sewing Machine, Part I” fed my fascination. Even…

Life grabbed my attention and pulled me out of my doldrums Saturday evening when I sat down to check my Facebook feed on the desk computer. I really should have checked there sooner. My phone never revealed a morning posting by Sandy Gross, wife of John Gross, assistant superintendent at Smackover-Norphlet High School. She wrote…

The Highway of Genius (U.S. 36) stretches across the top quarter of the state of Missouri linking the home towns of J.C.Penney, General John J. Pershing, Walt Disney and Mark Twain. It includes stopping points for the Pony Express and the origin of sliced bread in Chillicothe. I knew all that when my husband and…