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Summer is coming! When I was a child, this not only meant a change in temperature, but it seemed to me my whole world changed.
For your edification, I am sharing with you some important summer rules.
1) You cannot go barefoot until after June first.
2) If you get a sandspur stuck in y...
This morning, I awoke with the words of a hymn in my mind. I can remember my mother singing it as she did housework when I was a child. I went to one of my bookcases and found an old hymnal. The hymn Life's Railway to Heaven was on page 200. The publication date was 1896 - one hundred twen...
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 ...
It is June! Are you as excited as I am? What? You don’t know!? June first is the day you are allowed to take off your shoes and go barefoot outside! You can tip-toe across the yard – not through the tulips, but through an obstacle cou...
I was reminded of this recently when I had lunch with some ladies I have known for years. One of them has family members who came from Cuba. As we talked, I thought of some of the colorful tales I have heard about the Cuban rum-runners who frequented the port of Fernandina, Florid...