Imagination is a wonderful thing. It can take you any place you want to go. Sometimes, just as a sort of mini-vacation, I close my eyes and zip back a hundred years to Etta, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The place I go is my grandparents’ farm. It is Sunday morning, July 13, 1914. Levi and Edna […]
Jul 5, 2014
Fireworks!
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Sitting at the park last night with my family, I thought of how blessed I am to live here, in this town, in the United States of America. It was a perfect night, clear and cool, chilly, in fact. I wished I had brought a jacket. Fireworks were going off all around us, but we were […]
Jul 4, 2014
Poems That Said It Best
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So many things could be said about the Fourth of July. Our independence, our freedom is not to be taken lightly. I’m simply putting here a couple of poems to celebrate the day. I hope each of you, my readers, has a blessed and safe Fourth of July! Four Things Four things in any land […]
Jul 3, 2014
In Fran’s House
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Yesterday was the day of Fran’s monthly luncheon. It is always a pleasure and a privilege to attend. This dear lady is gifted with hospitality and, I believe, is being used by the Lord to reach out to other women. She is generous with her time, food, and home. Her yard, front and black, blooms with […]
Jul 2, 2014
Freedom
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As Independence Day nears, I’m thinking about the word, freedom, and what it means to me. This is only what it means to me, mind you. I don’t know what it means to you or if you have thought about it. I think about those brave souls who sailed in a frail boat across the […]
Jun 23, 2014
Family Connections
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Sunday, Matt and his family and I went to the Levi Latty reunion in Tahlequah. It was a neat day of a whole lot of visiting, a whole lot of food, games and prizes, and remembrances. I think of those family reunions as connections, a bridge between the past and the present or maybe even […]
