If Nature is tired of being taken for granted and is trying to be noticed, she has succeeded. This morning, the temperature hovers around 38; lightning cuts across the dark sky; thunder roars and threatens, and yet more rain sluices from the heavens. How much rain? I don’t know. One report yesterday said that 7.32 […]
Dec 22, 2015
A Character for the Season
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Darcy waxes philosophical: Sometimes society as a whole looks with suspicion on people who are different. This is unfair and undeserved, but we are an imperfect species. Jasper moved in a realm of woods and animals. He was friends with the owls. Civilized society is locked into a set of established rules. Surely, if someone likes God’s great out-of-doors […]
Dec 21, 2015
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Cars and trucks on the Interstate are humming along this morning. The Folger’s coffee is hot and strong. Nemo is snoozing and the Christmas tree is glowing. It’s the Monday before Christmas and this is what the day looks like from my house. An amazing find out by the mailbox: jonquils are poking through the […]
Dec 18, 2015
First Snowfall!
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If you did not look out your window between eight and nine o’clock last night, you probably missed NW Arkansas’s first snowfall. It started as a light mist, got harder, and those droplets turned into very wet flakes. It was only a handful, a sifting, and it melted off quickly. This is really funny because […]
Dec 17, 2015
Morning Coffee with Darcy and Flora
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The following conversation is not in any of the Darcy and Flora cozy mysteries…yet. But, come with me this morning to the town of Levi, Oklahoma, and listen in as Darcy talks with her mother about a problem and Flora’s wise recommendation. Darcy: You are up early, Mom. Couldn’t you sleep? Flora: I got my […]
Dec 16, 2015
Christmas Concert
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Last night, I went with my family to my granddaughter’s Christmas Concert. What a privilege! Those young people are talented! And beautiful in their neat uniforms and shiny black shoes. They were also attentive. All eyes were on their director and they responded to every nuance in the music and the silent directions from his face […]
