The library was quiet as the rush of the morning crowd headed to class. The late bell rang and I have a few minutes to listen to the soft sounds of rain falling outside. They forgot to shut my door again, but that isn’t unusual. I wish my door wasn’t Read more…
You’ve heard it said “Don’t pray for patience”. Why? Because the Lord, may give you something that will cause you to pull out your hair. My cup does not runneth over with patience when it comes to other drivers. If they would just follow the rules, I wouldn’t have to Read more…
I’m not talking about the odds in gambling because I wouldn’t know the first thing about it, except I’m bad at it. On the one and only occasion that I had the opportunity to gamble, I spent a couple of hours trying to lose $20.00 in nickel slot machine just Read more…
Has anyone ever told the whole truth and nothing but the truth? I know I haven’t always been completely honest about some things. I’m not proud of it, I’m rather ashamed if I was to be truthful. I try hard to be honest. Ha funny, being truthful about not telling Read more…
Not all mountains were created equal? The Rockies, the Ozarks, and the Smokies, just to mention a few, all have unique qualities bringing delight to every hiker, backpacker or day walker. Packed away in my bottomless pit of a brain are memories that resurface when I recall a name of Read more…
The hardest part of my job was listening to the nonsensical prattle from the kids. Oh, I wasn’t rude, but my mind was busy elsewhere. I would comment here and there while thinking, I need to fix that barcode before I can put it back on the shelf or I Read more…
I bet you thought I was going to talk about my kids, well I am, but it’s the 900 that I see every day in my library. Over the last four years, I have entertained my husband with some funny stories involving some of the kids at school. Some incidents Read more…
Traveling on the back roads of Louisiana I caught my first glimpse of junkyards. I was fascinated as we drove by broken down houses with discarded junk. Probably every car they ever owned filled the backyards while old busted appliances lined the porch. I couldn’t understand why they kept Read more…
Let’s take a trip to my favorite place on earth, Hawaii. The first time I went was with my singing group ‘Harvest Road’. I lived in the lovely state of Colorado, where your summers are three months long and winters are nine months longer. Our group went during the May Read more…
My dad and I spent many hours together, driving from one Army fort to another. He pulled a trailer with a pickup truck while my mom and sister followed in our car. Dad was an entertainer of the arts. No, he was never an actor he was a storyteller. In Read more…