My Wednesday thoughts are ramblings, here, there, and all over the place. Yesterday, Matt, Nathan and I took advantage of the warm weather to bone up on our basketball skills. Actually, the boys did a lot more shooting baskets than I did but, for an old lady, I wasn’t too bad. The best part was […]
Nov 1, 2016
Amazing Real-Life Mysteries
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Life has many mysteries as puzzling as fictional ones, happenings that have never been explained. These intrigue me. Amelia Earhart’s disappearance is one of those mysteries. Yesterday, I read a news story that might explain what happened to this daring pilot. And then again, it may not. In 1937, she was attempting to fly around the globe […]
Oct 29, 2016
Inaudible Voices, Invisible Friends
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I saw a cartoon on Facebook something to the effect of authors talking to the characters in their books. Of course we do! I just hope nobody hears me sitting at my computer holding a conversation with an invisible person who speaks with a voice that is inaudible to everyone but me. Me: Ned, I don’t believe you […]
Oct 28, 2016
Another Place, Somewhere in the Fog
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Come with me to another place this morning. You may have been there or you may not. It’s a small town, a busy, bustling town, but it is an old town and, as with all old towns, it has its secrets. Many aged houses populate the town and each has a story to tell. Ned O’Neil’s […]
Oct 26, 2016
Spinning Dreams Out of Nothing At All
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We all have a dream–something that puts a spring in our steps and a gleam in our eyes. Dreams are those wonderful things as filmy as spiders’ webs, as substantial as moonbeams, somewhere ahead of us, calling to us to follow, to pursue, to hope, to reach. We can spin dreams of the straw of […]
Oct 25, 2016
How’d I Get Here So Fast?
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Yesterday, I read about the death of Bobby Vee. I remember his song, “Take Good Care of My Baby.” In fact, it is going through my head word for word, note for note right now. It must be one of those things that marks me as a Senior Citizen but wait! How’d I get here […]
