Month: January 2022

“Let’s not tell Grandma that we like the show. She might get cocky,” my granddaughter said after watching her first four episodes of Sue Thomas FBEye. I laughed when my daughter told me that. Me? get cocky about someone liking a show I recommended? Hardly, I am just glad someone actually tried my suggestion. The…

Several inches of snow on the ground outside their new house thrilled the grade schooler. She knew what that meant. She ran to tell her mother. “Look! It snowed! No school today.” “Nuh-uh, honey. We aren’t in Arkansas anymore. This is Pennsylvania. You will be going to school today,” her mother disillusioned her daughter just…

Respect for my elders went out the window that day. I usually listened respectfully to one particular woman who was old enough to be my mother. I admired her homemaking skills and Biblical knowledge gathered from years of sermons or Bible studies. She knew her Bible. She also knew and embraced the social mantra, “Responsible…

A treasured box … resident hold priceless memories in Lane mini-cedar chests By Joan Hershberger El Dorado News-Times A treasure box. A graduation gift. An incentive to purchase something much larger. A small memento from the past that many women (and men) have kept with them for years. In the 1920s, the Lane Furniture Co.,began…

In the darkened loft of the log cabin, the ten pajama clad kids whispered and suppressed laughter hoping the seven tired adults did not hear them. Laying there in jammies on four beds, two futons and two air mattresses, sleep eluded them.  Hours before they had converged on this isolated cabin in the woods for…