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“Witness Trees” to History
Dear Reader: Today, historical sites are hiring, not only, professional landscapers and lawn maintenance personnel to maintain the outdoor park areas for millions of tourists annually, but parks are...
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Nature’s Divine Healing
Dear Reader: While watering the garden this morning I noticed that “Cleo” (nickname for clerodendrum) and her one beautiful bloom was almost full. I, also, noticed the contrast between light pink...
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Letting Curiosity Be Our Compass
Dear Reader: At Tractor & Supply last week the whole stock of Trisha Yearwood’s Home designs were on sale – 50% off! I love her homey decor tastes and discovered this water can pitcher that I fell...
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Some Days We Just Need a “Baby Day”
Dear Reader: I remember hearing some time back a quote from an unknown author that went something like: “A Baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” I needed to remember that quote and I needed...
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Permanence Lives in the Unseen
Dear Reader: I remember during my childhood seeing these five letters a lot. They would pop up at the end of a movie or a short story or novel. I remember asking mother what it meant and she told me...
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Hope and Happiness Comes in All Different Forms
Dear Reader: Yesterday I was carrying some bags of groceries inside and doing my ridiculous juggling act on the porch….trying to keep the storm door open while balancing groceries and turning the door...
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“How to Die Young…As Late As Possible”– Try HAM
Dear Reader: I just welcomed my newest addition to the garden that I got at the Vintage South L.L.C. antique shop last Friday. The price was so.o.o..o low on this wrought iron planter…so much so that...
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Getting Caught Up in the “Tic for Tac” Game
Dear Reader: Don’t we wish that this would be the scales we were asked to step on when being weighed at our doctors’ offices? No fear of a negative or hurtful comment. After a decade of cancer...
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Are Clams Really Happy?
Dear Reader: Have you ever wondered how the expression “Happy as a clam” came about….I mean, really, how does anyone know they are happy? They make me happy when I eat New England clam chowder but I...
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“Living with Faith and Hope in the Small Corners of our Lives”
Dear Reader: I have done several blogs on nooks and crannies…I have been drawn to the corners of life since I was a little girl. Nooks and crannies were my favorite places to hide out and live in...
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A Gift of Summerville History
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I was so filled with anticipation that I could hardly stand myself! Beth Brewer emailed me Tuesday evening to ask if I would be interested in a manettia vine, originally...
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A Viking and Three Mermaids sailed into Summerville
Dear Reader: Isn’t the greatest thing about life…happy surprises? Honey called me last week and said, “Guess what? Kewin and Rikke Larsen are coming to the mountains to stay with Mike and me a few...
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A Meal Together…”A Ceremony of the Ordinary”
Dear Reader: How I longed for years, when the children were growing up, to never again hear the same repeated daily question, “What’s for dinner?” If only (I would daydream) we could eliminate meals...
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“A Life Lived With Love is Enough”
(Digital Painting by Jeremiah Morelli) Dear Reader: Oh how I love this scene...Lanterns and books leading me on my path through life amid shrouded misty mysteries…I can’t imagine anything more...
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When Things Go Wrong, Don’t Go Wrong with Them
Dear Reader: Don’t you remember swinging upside down and how cool the world looked head down instead of head up. Even Eloise loves to play “horsie” and wait in anticipation for the horse to fall down...
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The Garden of Time
Dear Reader: Late each afternoon when I walk around the garden to see how the plants are holding up, especially new arrivals, I notice how location is so important in their ability to thrive. Some...
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“I’m Fine”
Dear Reader: I have been accused by others of being a “Just Fine’er” and they are right. When people ask casually “How are you?” I figure they really don’t want a verbal dissertation on a decade of...
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The Power of Inscriptions and Park Benches
Dear Reader: When we think about what we can leave behind that might help someone else along their journey long after we are gone…sometimes that “what” can be something as simple as an inscription or...
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Only One You
Dear Reader: I have a kindness website that pops up occasionally sharing random acts of kindness and also planned acts of kindness…this idea, today, falls under the latter. This is a story of an art...
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Remember Who You Wanted to Be?
Dear Reader: I love Kelly Rae Roberts’ most recent blog. In it she is describing the dual feelings of watching her son, now eight, become more independent while her heart-strings still want him to...
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