As I was making a pot of tea this morning, there came a knock at the kitchen door. It brought to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” The difference being that the tapping on Poe’s door came at midnight, and this was five o’clock in the morning. Hardly the time for a neighbor to come...
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We had been married less than a year. My husband was just out of the U. S. Navy and attending the University of Texas at Arlington. I was working for C. P. Waggoner Sales Company in Grand Prairie across the street from Chance-Vought. As the saying was at the time, I was earning my ...
14.08.25 03:08 AM - Comment(s)
(An American children’s rhyme) Have you ever been a-fishing on a hot summer’s day Sittin’ on the rocks and a-rocking away With your hands in your pockets And your pockets on your pants Watching the little fishies Do a hoochie koochie dance? (An American children’s rhyme – sung to the tune of Turkey In The Straw.) My Grandmother Nolan taught me this song, and, yes, I have been “a-fishing on a hot summer’s day”.
By BlueSkies
As a child, I learned to fish with my mother and her twin brother Joe. The short “jetties” on the northwest side of Amelia Island was a favorite spot. When the tide had receded enough, we would make our way out on the rocks. My mother went first, carrying some of the fishing gear. I foll...
25.07.25 01:11 PM - Comment(s)
CONDOLENCES My thoughts and prayers go out to the grief-stricken people in Texas who have lost loved ones, property, and livelihood. – Mary Nolan Brown
By BlueSkies
Do you remember my telling you that I recently realized I was still eating for all the starving children in China? I also realized this did nothing for the children and, as my father would say, made me “pleasingly plump”.
So-o-o, I decided to let the children in China fend for themselves. ...
14.07.25 01:42 PM - Comment(s)
I was told to be careful if I took this path.
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02.07.25 05:06 AM - Comment(s)