Learning Life’s Greatest Lessons from Waves…
Dear Reader: When I reflect upon the lessons that the ocean has taught me throughout my life… I look at it now with new respect and awe. It has taken me a lifetime to recognize it… but the ocean has...
View ArticleScatter Joy
Dear Reader: This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of my all-time favorites. Recently it occurred to me it would make a beautiful epitaph. ( He/ She -name-scattered joy!) I can think of no higher...
View ArticleChristmas in July with Poinsettias and a little ” Blue ” To Secure” You!
My Christmas Poinsettia … ” Chillin” on the Front Porch Since December These days the Christmas Poinsettia is Getting Hotter and Hotter as the heat index nears the triple digits! Friends and visitors...
View Article” Luring Links” Between July 2 and July 4 Celebrations!
Home of Sweet Tea and Delicious Freedom Dear Reader: Don’t we all get caught up annually with memories and personal feelings of what July 4 means to us … so much so that we forget there are...
View Article” The Happy Empath”
Dear Reader: I have always taken delight in my Libra approach to life… keeping a balance within myself and others. Overall it has worked well… but every now and then life just seems to get out of...
View ArticleThe ” REAL” BLOB
1958 Original Movie–BLOB 1988 Version of the BLOB Dear Reader: I was about eight or nine when I first saw this horror show ( probably first one I snuck into with Ben without mother knowing) I paid the...
View ArticleWe Don’t Have To Make Our Own Magic… We Just Have to Recognize It When It...
Dear Reader: Have you ever thought about this… that once we stop rushing through life, we finally get it… and that is …amazingly… how much more life we now have time for? That is probably the greatest...
View ArticlePutting Humanity First in our Daily Lives…
This insightful quote from Albert Einstein needs to be repeated and implemented in our daily lives! Dear Reader: Yesterday I was off to Brookie’s in Walterboro to spend another of our famous movie...
View Article” I am Creating the Life of My Dreams…“
Dear Reader: Don’t you love those first few moments of awakening consciousness daily… when you recollect the day of the week, the agenda for day… and then suddenly remember you are going to lifetime...
View ArticleHAVE FAITH…
Kelly Rae Roberts FAITH ANGEL Dear Reader: As I went in the bathroom first thing Sunday morning at Brooke’s, to wash up…I recognized ( for the first time) the Faith Angel I gave Brooke many years ago…...
View ArticleA Beautiful Rainy Morning…
Rain… Glorious Rain! No watering today!! Dear Reader: Waking up yesterday morning to the sound of rain … just starting to hit the ground, was music to my ears! I dashed out and made sure my new...
View ArticleYou Have What It Takes…
You REALLY do! It’s a SPECIAL gift added at birth by God… no doubt! Dear Reader: It took me awhile of growing and loving, to finally realize we don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward in...
View ArticleA New Day, A New Blessing, A New Hope
Hope Rises… Dear Reader: I have come to realize as we grow older, our sleep habits change. For a few months now… I find my inner alarm clock going off around 5 – 5:30 am. I am wide awake and...
View ArticleIn Order to Be Happy… We Have To Be Brave
Day by Day Our Courage is on Display Dear Reader: Come with me…and let’s all go back in time to the first day of first grade. We are all nervous and excited simultaneously. We can hardly wait to meet...
View Article” Baby… It’s HOT, HOT, HOT!” WE ALL NEED IS ” LONG EYES” AND IMAGINATIONS!
Theodore Roosevelt-The ” Savior ” of National Parks Dear Reader: One of our local weathermen, yesterday, announced that we ( Lowcountry residents) are getting ready to enter the hottest stretch of...
View ArticleAn Ordinary Saturday Morning… Turned Magical!
Make sure you take time for magic! Dear Reader: Saturday morning… I really had only one objective… to get some zinnias from the ” flower lady” at the local Farmers Market… and that meant getting there...
View ArticleBaseball and Life… Connected Forever?
Dear Reader: A couple of weeks ago… I mentioned that I had just finished a ” summer read” ( On Fire Island) I enjoyed because the angle or perspective of the main character, Julia Morse, was most...
View ArticleDeep Meanings in Life Dwell in the Everyday Ordinary…
Dear Reader: In the past couple of days …shared conversations… with two of my favorite ” sisters-in-” love” -Doodle and Lassie …have provided me with thoughts about life that have elevated my sense of...
View ArticleChristmas in July… an Ukrainian Christmas Story
Dear Reader: Every time I walk to my car I pass my Ukrainian tree flag… it reminds me how easy it is to push suffering of others on the back burners … while so many unfortunate families and lives have...
View ArticleTrust the Timing of Your Life…
Dear Reader: The longer I live the more hindsight I have… these days it consumes the breath and depth of my present life. I openly acknowledge that everything in my life has happened for a reason at...
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