Writing and Rambling

I Wonder   I wonder if someday, when we walk in the street Look up and see the sunshine– maybe talk to those we meet: Will we think how wondrous a thing it is When someone holds our hand, or…
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Cookies at the Kitchen Table When my great grandmother was upset she would always make bread dough.  My grandmother told me that “even if it was evening and she didn’t need bread until morning she would go out there and…
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Cake for Lunch   There were lots of big, strong, strapping men around on my grandparents’ dairy farm– boys with fingers as thick as sausages, from handling the farm work.  I was quiet and liked to read, but I wasn’t…
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New Year It’s hard to believe that it is 2020 already.  This time of year is good for contemplation and fresh starts.  It always makes me nostalgic.  The other day I was thinking about this blog– how it started as…
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The Good China My grandma always kept the good china in a dark, imposing hutch that sat grumpily in the corner of the kitchen, guarding the special dishes like a soldier presiding over prisoners of war. I used to stand…
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Porch Sitting You can learn a lot about life sitting on the porch. There was a time, not so very long ago, when people didn’t have air conditioning.  The porch became a respite from the sweltering stuffiness of the inside…
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Nancy in Paris “Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn It was just about a year ago that I was in Paris— that glorious, magical city which has a certain something– a certain je ne sais quoi— that…
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The Lady’s Bonnet There once was a beautiful lady, The most lovely you ever did see. And though she is missing her bonnet, She’s still perfectly lovely to me. Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a…
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