You’ll never guess what special day falls on April 1. Sure, I know it’s April Fool’s Day and hope and energy are in the air as well as a lot of jokes about shoe laces being untied. But April 1 is also International Tatting Day! Honestly. Yes, today is only March 30 and I’m a couple of days […]
Mar 29, 2015
A Little Light Romance
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Let me tell you, I’m a dreamer–always have been, probably always will be. “Moonlight and Roses” is one of my favorite songs and I’ll bet not many of you have ever heard it. It’s an old, gentle, romantic song. Like a lot of things, I’m afraid the word romance has taken on a new meaning […]
Mar 28, 2015
Weather Wanderings (Wonderings?)
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My eyes must be deceiving me. Something is falling from the skies this morning and it must be rain but, under the porch light it looks amazingly like snow. The temperature hovers around forty-one and the weatherman is calling for the possibility of light rain so that must be the answer. The rain is so light […]
Feb 8, 2015
Moonlight Can Be Murder
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Moonlight Can Be Murder A Ned McNeil Cozy Mystery by Blanche Day Manos My car’s headlights cut a yellow swath through the swirling snow. Forty years ago, Uncle Javin’s driveway had not seemed so long but memories dim with time. Gray clouds […]
Jan 31, 2015
Friends and Friendship
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In the early morning darkness, a car roars off to an unknown (to me) destination. What’s the reason for his hurry? Is there an emergency? I hope he is not alone if he is facing a trauma but that he has a friend to share the urgency. Friends put the sunshine in a cloudy day […]
Jan 2, 2015
Looking Back Without Stumbling
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Sometimes, when beginning a new year, I like to look back at the old one. So, yesterday, I not only looked back at 2014, I went way, way back to 1953 and a 5-year diary my mother gave me in 1952. It was full of a young girl’s thoughts and experiences. Some of them were […]
