Month: December 2019
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Resolved to try that?! recipe
This year I resolved to try recipes from cookbooks I find at yard sales. Last summer, I chuckled when I read the title, “The Non-Chew Cookbook.” I bought the cookbook for that oxymoron of a title. Then I read the foreword and quit laughing. The inability to chew presents a serious nutritional problem for folks…
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The saga of the bunk bed
Forty years ago in a modest two-story house in Indiana, we switched to bunk beds to give our growing family of five boys room to play and sleep. My handy man used 2″x4” beams and sheets of plywood to build two sets of bunks for the boys. Each set had drawers on the bottom. He…
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After the fire at South Arkansas Community College
I huffed a bit after climbing the steep stairs to the third floor of the newly re-dedicated Thomas Administration Building at South Arkansas Community College. I had skipped the elevator in order to see everything in the new interior. The little lady who joined me on the top floor walked into a room once filled…
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Locked Out!
A locked door welcomed four grandchildren to our house. I stared at the very locked up house. No Grandpa came to greet us. “Grandpa is gone.” I said. I picked up the phone and called him. No answer. I could only leave a message to a person who never checks messages, “I left my keys…
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Beat Bob the one man volleyball team
t all started last spring: my husband’s excitement and interest in bringing the One Man Volleyball team of Bob Holmes to Union County. Holmes visits communities, plays volleyball with students in various schools and then talks with the students about bullying and suicide. Hubby thought Union County needed him to visit. Hubby researched the One…
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30 days of Thanksgiving
am so far behind in this month’s posting of a daily item for which I am thankful that today I will catch up and finish all at once. With that in mind, I am thankful for … My handy husband fixes before replacing anything and enjoys the whole process (well, he enjoys it until it…