Defying the Darkness

Defying the Darkness

It was a tiny, striped chipmunk, about one-third the size of D. C. the cat. D. C. had stalked her prey and the chipmunk had run until it had no place to go. Behind it was the corner of the yard with no escape route. I’m sure that small rodent’s heart was about to hammer […]

A Long Ago Sign of Spring

If you got a blog or a partial blog yesterday about Granny Bohannon, my apologies. I hit the “publish” button before I meant to.  Anyway, here is the full  version of what should not have gone out yesterday. Each year I look for signs of spring to tell me that winter is actually over. I […]

Books, Books Everywhere; My Shelves All Seem to Shrink

With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. Instead of “water, water everywhere” I have books, books everywhere and truly not enough shelf room for them all. The dictionary defines bibliophile as someone who admires or collects books. I guess that would be me because I do both. And, as if […]

Good morning

This morning I woke up before the sun (naturally). Robins are the first ones I hear each morning, singing their little “cheer up” song. In fact, it seems that the town is full of robins chirping in the dark. Maybe it’s just that the world is a quieter place early of a morning and I […]