Is this an age of enlightenment or a return to the Dark Ages? Hopefully, it is neither and probably I’m the only one in the whole world who would ask. A definition of the Dark Ages is “the time after the fall of the Roman Empire, marked by intellectual, economic, and cultural decline.” Whereas in […]
Jun 24, 2024
Bea, the Lucky Kitten
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She has to have a guardian angel whose specialty is looking after homeless waifs. No one knows where she actually came from, so I’ll start by telling what we do know. A dear friend of mine first became aware of her on a drive into Tahlequah when she and her daughter heard a kitten mewing. […]
Jun 20, 2024
Summer!
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The summer solstice slipped up on me but here it is, once again. It’s the longest day and the shortest night of the year. After today, the days will ever so slowly begin to shorten and the nights will ever so slowly begin to lengthen. But, summer is here and it’s a beautiful day, so […]
Jun 5, 2024
The Magic of Smells
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It’s funny what smells can do. On this wet, quiet spring morning, I caught a brief scent of woodsmoke–perhaps a leftover from a neighbor’s fireplace–and in an instant, I was whisked a good many miles and a number of years back. Once again, I was a child on our farm. It was springtime and hope […]
Jun 1, 2024
Are You a June Bug?
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Are you a June Bug? If you’re one of those lucky people born this month, you’ve got a lot of good things going for you. First, there’s your birthstone–you have two of them! The pearl and the Alexandrite are yours. Flowers? Also two–the rose and the honeysuckle. So, you’re bright and shiny, have infinite value, […]
May 30, 2024
Somewhere Along the Way
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Be sure you treasure them–those actual letters hand-written on paper by a loved one–because getting letters the old-fashioned way in a metal mailbox is getting to be a thing of the past. We’ve lost the appreciation of hand-written greetings somewhere along the way. I used to get personal mail delivered by our mail carrrier–lovely birthday […]
