Crooked Creek by Sue Mattingly
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
the visit upon waking, the first day of this new year, i opened my back door to find visitors… not just the usual gathering, but an unorthodox menagerie… visitors of the most extraordinary kind… a boastful bluejay flashing his brilliant wings… a haughty mockingbird exhibiting his boisterous nature… a bashful carolina […]
This New York Times bestseller, “Separated – Inside an American Tragedy,” was published in July of this year. The author, Jacob Soboroff, is a TV journalist who won the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Individual Achievement by a National Journalist and the HIllman Prize for Broadcast Journalism that same year. Soboroff witnessed firsthand in Texas, […]
My family tradition is to celebrate Christmas (the Mass of Christ) and I wish a Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate Christ. I know there are other traditions of faith and festivity and I wish Happy Holidays to all readers according to your customs and beliefs. Photos by Pixabay
The “Monday Book Review” (“The Other Wes Moore”) was scheduled for January 4, 2021 but for some reason WORDPRESS decided it should go out on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Just thought I’d add this note of explanation so you’d know I really do know it isn’t Monday!!! Although, in truth, somedays I’m not sure what […]
“The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore This story is both heartbreaking and enlightening. Two children with the same name grew up at the same time in similar conditions. Each was fatherless and each struggled in school and the “hood.” As adults one is a Rhodes Scholar and Military Officer, the other is in prison […]
If you didn’t see it last night you may be in luck and still able to see Jupiter and Saturn close together in the sky. I expected a artistic “Star of Bethlehem” but it looked more like a very large and bright star. By blowing up a photo of the conjunction you could actually see […]
snow devils the frigid arctic wind stirs up snow devils that spin and twist in a cold driven rage spin drift sprays off the rooftops as the cold polar air sinks and plunges like a thick heavy weight toward the ice crusted ground the air looks solid and dimensional as though one could reach out […]
Crooked Creek now has 500 followers! Pictures by Pixabay
Christmas Season It is upon us full swing! Are you enjoying the season? Each family is different regarding what timeframe makes up the Christmas season. I know some people who start shopping in autumn and always put up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Others wait for December, but we all know that commercial […]
On Christmas Day in this Covid year,Let’s Zoom Zoom Zoom.There are other ways to spread cheer.Let’s Zoom Zoom Zoom. Mailing cards and I O Us.Certificates for grub and booze.Another time to meet and schmooze.For now let’s Zoom Zoom Zoom. Presence and presents both can wait,‘Til a later, safer date.Only then can we clean the plate.For […]
May your Hanukkah season be filled with love and joy. Photos by Pixabay
So many things are easier when done with a team. My husband, Raymond, and I were a team of two for over fifty years. We could make up the bed in seconds, one on each side. Preparing a meal, whether for the two of us or a big family gathering, was a cinch as we […]
Masks, hand washing, social distancing, Three easy things to do that saves lives, but they have to be done correctly. Distancing = six feet separation. Hand washing with soap and water for twenty seconds. Masks cover the nose and mouth. I am sick of encountering people with their mask placed UNDER the nose! What part […]
