Monthly Archives: June 2009

From this article about the widowed father of two young boys and how they coped. It touched me deeply.

Two employees from a department store who were spending a day with friends at the beach find themselves falsely accused of some minor, pettifogging violations of the law, and one of their smooth-talking pals talks them out of the police station with a rousing speech: Starting about the 7:45 mark- “Let a man say you […]

The Boy has been planning, replanning, arranging and rearranging a series of events for his birthday. He has things planned for every hour all. day. long. He just told me that he realized he has a two hour gap in the itinerary. “So I thought,” he said with a grin, “We’d spend those two hours […]

(repost) And the green grass grew all around…. So goes the old folk song, anyway. Except for Colorado and New Mexico we’ve had the green grass, too. And the green weeds flourishing like the bay tree of scripture. Wherever we live, the weeds grow, and I generally like it that way because I like wildflowers, […]

Flower-Flies and Nightening Bugs, that’s what Blynken and Nod called lightening bugs on Friday night when they caught them and put them in a jar. I love ‘nightening bugs.’